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CVE-2017-4971GHSA-FG9W-CFFM-PMH2

An issue was discovered in Pivotal Spring Web Flow through 2.4.4.

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 2.4.5
1 proof of concept on GitHub

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Record last updated
  3. EPSS reached 10%

    FIRST estimates at least a 10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Affected versions

  • n/a Spring Web Flow

    Version range not reported

  • org.springframework.webflow:spring-webflowMaven

    From 2.4.0 · fixed in 2.4.5

References 4

securityfocus.com

pivotal.io

jira.spring.io

GitHub · cved-sources/cve-2017-4971