CVE-2017-4971

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.

• CWE-1188

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98785Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://jira.spring.io/browse/SWF-1700Issue Tracking, Patch
• https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2017-4971Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98785Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://jira.spring.io/browse/SWF-1700Issue Tracking, Patch
• https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2017-4971Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory

Published

Jun 13, 2017

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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