diff --git a/src/KubernetesClient.Aot/KubeConfigModels/ExecCredentialResponse.cs b/src/KubernetesClient.Aot/KubeConfigModels/ExecCredentialResponse.cs
index 5bac4af5e..d593ff4f6 100644
--- a/src/KubernetesClient.Aot/KubeConfigModels/ExecCredentialResponse.cs
+++ b/src/KubernetesClient.Aot/KubeConfigModels/ExecCredentialResponse.cs
@@ -8,9 +8,13 @@ public class ExecCredentialResponse
         public class ExecStatus
         {
 #nullable enable
+            [JsonPropertyName("expirationTimestamp")]
             public DateTime? ExpirationTimestamp { get; set; }
+            [JsonPropertyName("token")]
             public string? Token { get; set; }
+            [JsonPropertyName("clientCertificateData")]
             public string? ClientCertificateData { get; set; }
+            [JsonPropertyName("clientKeyData")]
             public string? ClientKeyData { get; set; }
 #nullable disable
 
diff --git a/src/KubernetesClient.Aot/KubeConfigModels/ExecCredentialResponseContext.cs b/src/KubernetesClient.Aot/KubeConfigModels/ExecCredentialResponseContext.cs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c7ffd8294
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/KubernetesClient.Aot/KubeConfigModels/ExecCredentialResponseContext.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+namespace k8s.KubeConfigModels
+{
+    [JsonSerializable(typeof(ExecCredentialResponse))]
+    internal partial class ExecCredentialResponseContext : JsonSerializerContext
+    {
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/KubernetesClient.Aot/KubernetesClientConfiguration.ConfigFile.cs b/src/KubernetesClient.Aot/KubernetesClientConfiguration.ConfigFile.cs
index c1865687c..a2301b464 100644
--- a/src/KubernetesClient.Aot/KubernetesClientConfiguration.ConfigFile.cs
+++ b/src/KubernetesClient.Aot/KubernetesClientConfiguration.ConfigFile.cs
@@ -523,7 +523,10 @@ public static ExecCredentialResponse ExecuteExternalCommand(ExternalExecution co
                     throw new KubeConfigException("external exec failed due to timeout");
                 }
 
-                var responseObject = KubernetesJson.Deserialize<ExecCredentialResponse>(process.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd());
+                var responseObject = JsonSerializer.Deserialize(
+                    process.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd(),
+                    ExecCredentialResponseContext.Default.ExecCredentialResponse);
+
                 if (responseObject == null || responseObject.ApiVersion != config.ApiVersion)
                 {
                     throw new KubeConfigException(