Collected research

Beware of Deserialisation in .NET Methods and Classes + Code Execution via Paste!

Soroush Dalili · NCC Group

A survey of .NET Framework methods and classes that deserialise input, whose stand-out case is the clipboard: DataObject runs BinaryFormatter over several clipboard formats on paste. A crafted clipboard object therefore executes code in any WPF application with a text box, including PowerShell ISE and Visual Studio, which Microsoft treats as intended behaviour.

Record

Researcher

Soroush Dalili

Published by

NCC Group

Topic

Other

In the archive

• Collected in the 2018 research round

Related sources

• Clipboard deserialization plugin

Tags

• deserialization
• rce
• gadget-chain
• dotnet
• sandbox-escape
• privilege-escalation
• survey
• tooling
• owasp-a01-2021
• owasp-a08-2021

This page is the archive's own catalogue record. The research is the work of Soroush Dalili, first published at the original source. Preserved copies are kept so the citation survives its host; this one was last captured on 9 August 2026.