dotPDN Paint.NET before 4.1.2 allows Deserialization of Untrusted Data (issue 2 of 2).
Weakness
The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently ensuring that the resulting data will be valid.
Affected Software
| Name |
Vendor |
Start Version |
End Version |
| Paint.net |
Dotpdn |
* |
4.1.2 (excluding) |
Potential Mitigations
- Make fields transient to protect them from deserialization.
- An attempt to serialize and then deserialize a class containing transient fields will result in NULLs where the transient data should be. This is an excellent way to prevent time, environment-based, or sensitive variables from being carried over and used improperly.
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