CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-4971

5.9 MEDIUM Published 2017-06-13 Modified 2026-09-08 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-06-13
Last modified
2026-09-08
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
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 configurations

• broadcom spring web flow 2.4.0 • broadcom spring web flow 2.4.1 • broadcom spring web flow 2.4.2 • broadcom spring web flow 2.4.4

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-1188 Initialization of a Resource with an Insecure Default weakness

References