HEAD request body processing leading

📰 Reddit r/cybersecurity

Hey everyone, I recently discovered and disclosed a CVE involving unauthenticated Java deserialization RCE triggered via an HTTP HEAD request. Root cause summary: The application processes request bodies regardless of HTTP method. A serialized Java object sent inside a HEAD request body is still consumed through request.getInputStream(). The stream is passed into ObjectInputStream.readObject() without filtering or allowlisting.<br/

Published 28 May 2026
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