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Security · 22h ago

Critical Fastjson Flaw Under Active Attack, No Patch Available

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from The Hacker News ·

Attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-16723, a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Alibaba's Fastjson library for Java, with a CVSS score of 9.0. The flaw allows unauthenticated code execution in Spring Boot applications via malicious JSON requests. Security firms ThreatBook and Imperva report active attacks, but no patch has been released.

Meridian48 take
The lack of a patch for a flaw this severe underscores the risks of relying on unmaintained open-source libraries in production.
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