CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability exists that could allow code to be
remotely executed on the server when unsafely deserialized data is posted to the web server.
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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