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 ...

PayPal has fixed a serious vulnerability in its back-end management system that could have allowed attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the server and potentially install a backdoor. The ...

Serialization is the process of saving an object’s state to a sequence of bytes; deserialization is the process of rebuilding those bytes into a live object. The Java Serialization API provides a ...

Java deserialization vulnerabilities are continuing to crop up in a wide variety of products. A recent example was discovered in a controller implementation of the Extensible Authentication Protocol ...

A newly disclosed Apache Log4j2 issue could allow attackers to bypass a deserialization allowlist and execute code remotely in narrowly defined deployments. The issue, tracked as Log4j2 #4255, affects ...