CWE-502: Deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability exists that could lead to loss of confidentiality, integrity
and potential remote code execution on workstation when a non-admin authenticated user opens a malicious
project file.
Weakness
The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently ensuring that the resulting data will be valid.
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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