The Ruby programming language is impacted by a similar "deserialization issue" that has affected and wreaked havoc in the Java ecosystem in 2016; an issue that later also proved to be a problem ...

During deserialization of a serialized object, the Java serialization mechanism computes the suid based on the evolved class, yielding a value of 2, which differs from the suid stored in the ...

Java Deserialization Flaw Patched in 19 Products Among the most noteworthy aspects of the April CPU is the CVE-2016-1000031 Java flaw that is being patched across 19 Oracle products.

In the security industry, we know that operating on untrusted inputs is a significant area of risk; and for penetration testers and attackers, a frequent source of high-impact issues. Serialization is ...

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After determining that the PayPal site was vulnerable to Java deserialization, Stepankin was able to exploit the flaw in order to execute arbitrary commands on its underlying Web server.

Security researcher Bobby Gould has published a blog post demonstrating a complete exploit chain for CVE-2025-20281, an ...

Azul Vulnerability Detection checks all Java software including frameworks such as Spring, Hibernate, Tomcat, Quarkus, and Micronaut, and including infrastructure such as Kafka, Cassandra ...

After determining that the PayPal site was vulnerable to Java deserialization, Stepankin was able to exploit the flaw in order to execute arbitrary commands on its underlying Web server. “Moreover, I ...