Proposal would issue warnings about uses of deep reflection to mutate final flelds, preparing for a future Java release that disallows mutation of final fields by default.

Researchers have discovered a new vulnerability in the Java Reflection API that can be exploited by a decade-old attack.

Serialization is no exception to this rule, and attacks against serialization schemes are innumerable. Unfortunately, developers enticed by the efficiency and ease of reflection-based and native ...