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Wrong emphasis. It must be read "flaw in open source Java software.

The problem is Java, not Open Source.



I'd leave it out of the title altogether as irrelevant. The fact that Struts is distributed with a particular license is no more important in this case than the fact that the foundation that distributes it is incorporated in Delaware.


And Ruby [0] and Python [1] and...

Nothing about Java or it's community makes it any more prone than most other languages to exposing deserialisation into arbitrary objects.

[0] https://github.com/mazen160/struts-pwn_CVE-2017-9805/blob/ma... [1] https://blog.nelhage.com/2011/03/exploiting-pickle/




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