The serialization mechanism demonstrated in this post was easy to implement on the writer and reader sides because I used standard Java classes that are inherently Serializable and their ...

During object serialization, the default Java serialization mechanism writes the metadata about the object, which includes the class name, field names and types, and superclass.

PayPal has rewarded two researchers with bug bounties for the discovery of a Java serialization vulnerability in manager.paypal.com A Java serialization vulnerability disclosed more than a year ...

Last month, Oracle's chief architect, Mark Reinhold, said during a conference Q&A that one of Oracle's long-term goals is to change the way Java handles object serialization. In fact, he called the ...

Announced last year, the project is being led by Oracle's rockstar Java architect Brian Goetz. "Once we have records, the Java version of data classes, then it's part of the long term vision to have a ...

Java provides a means to conveniently serialize data to maintain its integrity as it's sent over a network. Attackers can exploit vulnerabilities in the deserialization process if there aren't ...

For example, an attacker could craft a serialized object that includes a Java class that the application accepts and which could be abused for something malicious.