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CVE-2017-4971

N/A
Published: June 13, 2017 at 06:00 AM UTC
Updated: September 8, 2026 at 05:29 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorSpring Web Flow

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 15%

Description

An issue was discovered in Pivotal Spring Web Flow through 2.4.4. Applications that do not change the value of the MvcViewFactoryCreator useSpringBinding property which is disabled by default (i.e., set to 'false') can be vulnerable to malicious EL expressions in view states that process form submissions but do not have a sub-element to declare explicit data binding property mappings.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (3)

VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98785
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatch
Source: [email protected]
https://jira.spring.io/browse/SWF-1700
x_refsource_CONFIRMMitigationPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2017-4971

CVSS

4.3MEDIUM[email protected]
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
PARTIAL
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-1188

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