The article walks through setting up a MySQL fake server, crafting a malicious JDBC URL with autoDeserialize and query interceptors, demonstrating how the MySQL JDBC driver automatically deserializes BLOB data via ObjectInputStream, and traces the call chain to show how arbitrary code can be executed during connection initialization.
ShiroAttack2 v5.1.1 is a fast exploitation framework for the long‑standing Shiro‑550 deserialization flaw, explaining why the vulnerability persists—default AES key, immutable key across deployments, and low attack cost—while offering a rich set of GUI, CLI, and payload features.
This article explains how JSON.parse and JSON.stringify work, outlines their performance, type, and security limitations, and presents practical strategies such as reviver functions, streaming parsers, binary formats, Web Workers, and incremental loading to achieve faster and safer JavaScript deserialization.
This article explains how to control enum serialization and deserialization in Spring Boot 3, covering default output, @JsonFormat, @JsonValue, custom serializers and deserializers, as well as @JsonProperty, @JsonCreator, and practical code examples.
This article dissects Alibaba's Fastjson library, explaining its architecture, core modules, project structure, serialization and deserialization processes, ASM‑based performance optimizations, AutoType security mechanisms, and streaming API, while providing code examples and practical insights for Java developers.
This article explains how JSON.parse and JSON.stringify work, outlines their performance, type, and security limitations, and presents advanced techniques such as reviver functions, streaming parsers, binary formats, Web Workers, and incremental loading to achieve faster and safer JavaScript deserialization.
This article explains how to handle unknown or dynamic JSON properties in Java using Jackson's @JsonAnySetter to collect them into a Map and @JsonAnyGetter to serialize them back, complete with practical code examples and best‑practice tips.
This article explains how Jackson's @JsonAnySetter and @JsonAnyGetter annotations let Java classes gracefully handle unknown JSON properties by collecting them into a map during deserialization and emitting them as regular fields during serialization, complete with practical code examples and usage tips.
This article explains how to handle JSON objects with unknown or changing fields in Java by using Jackson's @JsonAnySetter to collect them during deserialization and @JsonAnyGetter to serialize them back, complete with code examples, pitfalls, and a concise analogy.
This article explores Jackson's ObjectMapper in Spring Boot 3, covering basic serialization/deserialization, converting between objects, JSON strings, JsonNode, and collections, custom serializers/deserializers, handling unknown fields, and performance tuning with the Afterburner module and JMH benchmarks.
When a JSON payload contains unpredictable fields, Jackson’s @JsonAnySetter and @JsonAnyGetter let you capture those dynamic properties into a Map during deserialization and seamlessly emit them during serialization, eliminating the need for rigid POJOs.
This article introduces an open‑source Java JSON framework that uses recursive parsing and reflection to serialize and deserialize objects without third‑party libraries, supports generic and array types, and provides extensible features such as custom annotations, JsonPath, and HTML‑safe output.
This article introduces Python's built‑in json module, explaining how to serialize Python objects to JSON strings and files, deserialize JSON back to Python, and demonstrates common tasks such as pretty‑printing, handling Unicode, working with lists and nested structures, custom encoders, and network responses.
This article explains the fundamentals of Java object serialization, compares legacy and modern formats, outlines how to choose the right method, and details common issues such as static fields, transient modifiers, serialVersionUID mismatches, inheritance quirks, and custom serialization techniques with clear code examples.
Python's pickle module provides a simple way to serialize and deserialize complex objects such as lists, dictionaries, and class instances, allowing them to be saved to or loaded from files or byte streams, with examples of pickling, unpickling, using dumps/loads, protocol versions, and security considerations.
The article explains the requirements and usage of Jackson’s @JsonAnyGetter and @JsonAnySetter annotations, showing how to serialize dynamic properties into JSON and deserialize them back into a Java object, with complete code examples and step‑by‑step demonstrations.
The article explains serialization and deserialization fundamentals, highlights pitfalls such as ambiguous binary streams and platform‑dependent field sizes, then compares Java’s native ObjectOutputStream, JSON libraries, Hessian binary RPC, and Google’s Protobuf, guiding readers to select the appropriate format based on performance, payload size, and type‑safety needs.
This tutorial walks through Python's built‑in json module, covering import, core concepts, serialization and deserialization of simple and complex structures, file I/O, and how to create custom JSONEncoder and JSONDecoder classes for advanced use cases.
This article explains the fundamentals of JSON serialization and deserialization in Flutter, compares manual and automated approaches, introduces the json_serializable library and its annotations, demonstrates generic handling, custom converters, and tooling to streamline model generation for robust mobile app development.
This article provides a comprehensive guide to Jackson’s most frequently used annotations, core modules, and extension points in Spring Boot, illustrating each feature with concrete Java code examples that show how to customize serialization, deserialization, property handling, and polymorphic type processing.
This article explains Java serialization and deserialization concepts, outlines common use cases such as distributed systems and caching, compares multiple implementation methods including Serializable, Externalizable, JSON, XML, and binary libraries, and provides practical code examples, security tips, and best‑practice guidelines.
This tutorial explores Jackson's rich annotation set in Spring Boot 3.2.5, demonstrating how to serialize and deserialize JSON with built‑in annotations like @JsonAnyGetter, @JsonGetter, @JsonPropertyOrder, and @JsonIgnore, how to create custom annotations, and how to disable annotation processing for fine‑grained control.
In Spring Boot you can customize JSON request and response handling by annotating fields with @JsonSerialize/@JsonDeserialize, registering a global ObjectMapper module, adding a PropertyEditor via @ControllerAdvice, creating a custom HttpMessageConverter, or using AOP interception, selecting the approach that matches your project’s complexity.
This article demonstrates how to create custom JSON encoders, serialize and deserialize custom classes, handle circular references, and use various json.dumps parameters such as default, object_pairs_hook, allow_nan, indent, separators, and ensure_ascii to control JSON output in Python.
The article walks through a puzzling JSON deserialization failure in a Java filter using FastJSON, compares it with Gson and Jackson, discovers that hidden escape characters cause the error, and shows how unescaping the string resolves the issue.
This article explains how to use Python's built‑in json module for serializing and deserializing data, demonstrates sending JSON payloads with the requests library, and covers advanced techniques such as data‑driven testing, JsonPath/JMESPath extraction, JSON Schema validation, and dynamic request body construction for API automation.
Apache ActiveMQ versions prior to 5.18.3 are vulnerable to a deserialization flaw that allows remote code execution via crafted OpenWire messages on port 61616, affecting various activemq-client and activemq-openwire-legacy artifacts, and can be mitigated by upgrading to 5.15.16, 5.16.7, 5.17.6, 5.18.3 or later.
This article analyzes a ThinkPHP 6.0 deserialization exploit chain that leverages LeagueFlysystem's cached storage classes, detailing the sequence from __destruct to write, showing how controllable parameters enable arbitrary file writes and providing a proof‑of‑concept demonstration.
The paper presents ODDFuzz, a structure‑aware directed greybox fuzzing framework that combines lightweight static taint analysis with targeted fuzzing to efficiently discover previously unknown Java deserialization (ODD) vulnerabilities, achieving higher recall and precision than existing tools and uncovering six new CVE‑rated bugs in popular Java frameworks.
The ThinkPHP framework suffers from a deserialization vulnerability (CVE‑2022‑45982) affecting versions 6.0.0‑6.0.13 and 6.1.0‑6.1.1, where unsanitized user input passed to unserialize() can allow attackers to execute arbitrary system commands, and no official patch has been released yet.
This article examines the reasons for using serialization, compares three serialization protocols (JDK built‑in, Fastjson, and Hessian) with performance metrics, and provides a detailed Hessian serialization implementation, including class definitions, test results, hex analysis, and troubleshooting of common issues.
This article explains Java object serialization and deserialization, why implementing Serializable and defining a serialVersionUID are necessary for persistence and network transfer, and demonstrates the impact of transient and static fields with complete code examples.
The article explains that Fastjson sometimes throws a syntax‑error exception when deserializing a JSON list of StewardTipCategory objects because the JVM returns overloaded constructors in nondeterministic order, causing Fastjson to pick the wrong constructor; removing or renaming the ambiguous constructor fixes the issue.
This guide introduces FastJSON 2.0—a high‑performance JSON/JSONB library for Java—covers Maven configuration, key classes and methods, how to serialize and deserialize Java objects, and demonstrates powerful JSONPath queries for partial data extraction.
This article introduces FastJSON 2.0, explains how to add the Maven dependency, outlines the main classes and methods for JSON, JSONB, and JSONPath, and provides code examples for serializing and deserializing Java objects as well as partial parsing with JSONPath.
This article explains how Java's generic type erasure affects Fastjson deserialization, demonstrates common mistakes, and shows the correct way to deserialize generic fields using Fastjson's TypeReference, while also revealing the inner workings of TypeReference through reflection and anonymous classes.
This article explains Java's reflection mechanism, details how deserialization flaws in libraries like Apache Commons Collections and Fastjson allow attackers to craft malicious objects that trigger arbitrary command execution, and provides practical proof‑of‑concept steps and mitigation recommendations.
This article explains Python’s built‑in pickle module, detailing its four core functions, usage syntax, parameter meanings, and practical code examples for object serialization to binary data, file storage, and deserialization, while also discussing its limitations and alternatives like ZODB.
This tutorial explains how Java developers can use Jackson Mixins to add custom JSON serialization and deserialization behavior to classes that lack default constructors or getters, without modifying the original classes, and shows how to register Mixins via ObjectMapper or custom modules.
This article introduces Python's built-in pickle module, explains its four core functions (dumps, loads, dump, load), details their parameters and usage, and provides code examples for serializing and deserializing objects to memory and files, while noting performance limitations and alternatives such as ZODB.
The article compares Go's built‑in encoding/json with third‑party libraries jsoniter, easyjson, jsonparser, and the author's jsonvalue, outlining each one's features, performance benchmarks, and ideal use cases—standard library for simplicity, easyjson for maximum speed with code generation, jsonparser or jsoniter for selective extraction, and jsonvalue for flexible, case‑insensitive handling.
This article analyzes three Fastjson deserialization exploit chains—JdbcRowSetImpl, TemplatesImpl, and BasicDataSource—detailing how crafted JSON payloads trigger JNDI lookups, load remote malicious bytecode, and ultimately achieve remote code execution without requiring special Fastjson features.
This article explains the multiple techniques for creating objects in Java—including the new operator, Class.newInstance, reflection with Constructor, cloning via Cloneable, and deserialization—while illustrating the underlying bytecode instructions and providing concrete code examples for each method.
This article explains what insecure deserialization is, why it leads to high‑severity attacks, demonstrates typical PHP, Ruby, and Java examples, and provides practical techniques for identifying, exploiting, and mitigating unsafe deserialization vulnerabilities.
This article provides a detailed analysis of the recent Fastjson deserialization vulnerability, explaining how the autoType bypass can be exploited to achieve arbitrary file reads, SSRF, and other attacks by leveraging gadget classes such as AutoCloseable, and walks through the debugging process and code paths involved.
This article introduces Protocol Buffers, explains its advantages over XML, and provides a step‑by‑step guide for defining .proto files, compiling them with protoc, configuring a Java Gradle project, and writing code to serialize and deserialize objects using the generated classes.
This guide explains what Protocol Buffers are, compares them with XML, shows how to define a .proto schema, compile it with protoc, add the generated classes to a Java Gradle project, and demonstrates object serialization and deserialization with concrete code examples.
This article explains the high‑severity CVE‑2020‑24616 deserialization flaw in jackson‑databind, identifies affected Jackson and Spring Boot versions, and provides Maven‑based remediation steps such as version pinning, dependency exclusions, and dependencyManagement configuration to prevent remote code execution.
This article explains the fundamentals of web security, outlines typical web architecture, classifies penetration testing approaches, enumerates common vulnerabilities such as SQL injection, XSS, file upload and deserialization, and discusses how attackers combine these flaws to launch advanced exploits.
This article explains the mechanics of Java deserialization vulnerabilities, demonstrates how malicious payloads can trigger Runtime.exec via Commons‑Collections transformers and AnnotationInvocationHandler, showcases full exploit code, discusses Dubbo‑specific issues, and provides practical mitigation strategies.
This article examines Fastjson’s AutoType feature, explains how its design leads to serious deserialization vulnerabilities across multiple versions, demonstrates exploit techniques using crafted @type payloads, and provides practical mitigation steps such as enabling safeMode and upgrading to the latest release.
This article examines Fastjson's AutoType feature, explains how it works, demonstrates how it can lead to serious deserialization vulnerabilities, reviews the evolution of related security patches across versions, and provides guidance on safe usage and mitigation strategies.
The 2020‑06‑23 security advisory reveals that Apache Dubbo versions 2.5.x, 2.6.0‑2.6.7, and 2.7.0‑2.7.6 contain a high‑severity deserialization vulnerability (CVE‑2020‑1948) allowing remote code execution, outlines its impact, provides affected version details, risk assessment, remediation steps, and references to mapping data and product‑level mitigation.
This article explains Java serialization and deserialization, the role of the Serializable interface and serialVersionUID, demonstrates how to implement and test them with code examples, and discusses related features such as transient and static fields, providing practical insights for Java developers.
This article introduces JSON basics, explains the Fastjson library from Alibaba, outlines its key features, and provides practical Java code examples for parsing, serializing, and converting between JSON strings, objects, arrays, maps, lists, and beans using Fastjson’s API.
This article explains what Java serialization and deserialization are, why they are needed for object persistence and distributed systems, and provides step‑by‑step code examples showing how to implement them using the Serializable interface and ObjectOutputStream.
This article dissects the Apache Commons FileUpload DiskFileItem deserialization flaw, explains how readObject can be abused to write arbitrary files or directories depending on FileUpload and JDK versions, demonstrates payload construction with ysoserial, provides full Java code analysis, and outlines mitigation strategies.
This article walks through why developers should replace FastJson with Gson, explains Gson's core features, demonstrates basic and advanced serialization and deserialization—including handling arrays, collections, generic types, custom serializers, and annotations—while providing complete code examples and best‑practice tips.
This article examines how a specially crafted PriorityQueue object, generated via the ysoserial tool, can be serialized and later trigger malicious code execution during Java deserialization, detailing the construction of the gadget, the transformation chain, and the underlying JVM mechanisms that enable the exploit.
This article explains Java serialization and deserialization fundamentals, why they are needed, the underlying algorithms, the JDK APIs, step‑by‑step code examples, important considerations, and best practices for safely persisting and transmitting object state.
This article explains five Java object‑creation techniques—using the new keyword, Class.newInstance, Constructor.newInstance, clone, and deserialization—shows their bytecode differences, provides a complete Employee example, and demonstrates each method with runnable code and output.
The article explains Java serialization and deserialization concepts, provides sample code for serializing a string to a file and restoring it, describes how insecure deserialization leads to remote code execution vulnerabilities illustrated by ActiveMQ, JBoss and Jenkins cases, and outlines mitigation techniques such as class whitelisting, encryption, and using transient fields.
The article explains serialization and deserialization fundamentals, compares key protocols (XML/SOAP, JSON, Thrift, Protobuf, Avro) across readability, performance, extensibility and security, presents benchmark results, and offers practical guidelines for choosing the most suitable format for various distributed system scenarios.
