CVE-2025-46183

The Utils.deserialize function in pgCodeKeeper 10.12.0 processes serialized data from untrusted sources. If an attacker provides a specially crafted .ser file, deserialization may result in unintended code execution or other malicious behavior on the target system.

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.

Related Attack Patterns

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/586.html

References

• https://github.com/hacktimepro/vulnerabilities/blob/main/Disclosure_CVE-2025-46183_pgcodekeeper.md