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title Pre Gradle version
This page documents the usage with Gradle, the pre-Gradle documentation is here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=65865828

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Sometimes the OFBIz code itself is not the culprit. OFBiz relies on many Java librairies, and if one of them has a flaw we can't always wait it's fixed to warn and protect our users. This is for instance what happened with the 2015 infamous Java serialization vulnerability. OFBiz was affected by 2 librairies: Apache Commons Collections and Apache Groovy . As you can see at

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server ASF JIRA serverId 5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b key OFBIZ-6726

, we waited the Commons Collections update to fix the issue, because it was not much disclosed then.

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It easily protects you from all possible serialization vulnerabilities as explained in the notsoserial project. The idea is simple: initially you don't know what to put in your whitelist because there are some objects in OFBiz you need to put there, plus the ones you add yourself. So you initially use an empty whitelist and with the dryrun option you specify a file where the serialized objects are listed. Then you can continuously fill your whitelist to keep things secure. You can use the trace option to get a better idea of where and why an object is serialized.

ObjectInputStream

Because of

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server ASF JIRA serverId 5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b key OFBIZ-10837

we needed to fix another issue related to ObjectInputStream class. If you encouter a related issue (object not in the whitelist), you must provide a complete list of objects to pass to ObjectInputStream through ListOfSafeObjectsForInputStream property in SafeObjectInputStream.properties file. As an example, the a complete list of objects  used by OFBiz OOTB is commented out by default there. You will need to add your objects/classes to this list.

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