CVE-2017-4971

MEDIUM LAB

Pivotal Spring Web Flow <2.4.4 - Info Disclosure

Title source: llm

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.

Exploits (1)

nomisec STUB
by cved-sources · poc
https://github.com/cved-sources/cve-2017-4971

Scores

CVSS v3 5.9
EPSS 0.7536
EPSS Percentile 98.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Lab Environment

COMMUNITY
Community Lab
docker pull tomcat:8-jre8

Details

CWE
CWE-1188
Status published
Products (6)
n/a/Spring Web Flow Spring Web Flow
org.springframework.webflow/spring-webflow 2.4.0 - 2.4.5Maven
pivotal/spring_web_flow 2.4.0
pivotal/spring_web_flow 2.4.1
pivotal/spring_web_flow 2.4.2
pivotal/spring_web_flow 2.4.4
Published Jun 13, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026