Researchers have discovered a new vulnerability in the Java Reflection API that can be exploited by a decade-old attack.

Oracle’s Critical Patch update addresses 154 vulnerabilities. Details were published on a number of Java flaws in the Java Reflection API.

According to Gowdiak, the vulnerability is located in the Reflection API (application programming interface), a feature that was introduced in Java 7 and which has been the source of many critical ...

As the Oracle doc page describes it, the Reflection API "enables Java code to discover information about the fields, methods and constructors of loaded classes, and to use reflected fields, methods, ...

The book Java Reflection in Action was published in 2004, but remains largely applicable eight years later. In this post, I review this book and cover its strengths and its weaknesses. In general ...

Few details of the flaw were shared, presumably to prevent it from being exploited by hackers. Gowdiak told Softpedia that the flaw allows abuse of the Java Reflection API "in a particularly ...

I've got an odd issue that I was hoping the Hive Mind might shed some light on. I'm working with Morphia which is the Java MongoDB API. When peforming a query, there is a method called ...