Jackson-databind and Default Typing Vulnerabilities

Today, GitHub sent out security notices to owners of projects using old jackson-databind versions (older than 2.8.11.1 and 2.9.5). These notices pertain to this issue. I have talked about its relevance before on IRC, but since it is getting more attention now, I will describe it here again. The Problem The “bug” comes from using the so-called default typing. This feature allows a user to deserialize subclasses (or...

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