CVE-2017-4971

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 14.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-06-13 · updated 2026-09-08
Weakness: CWE-1188

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 products

Spring Web Flow: 2.4.0, 2.4.1, 2.4.2, 2.4.4

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98785
https://jira.spring.io/browse/SWF-1700
https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2017-4971
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98785
https://jira.spring.io/browse/SWF-1700
https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2017-4971

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