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CVE-2017-4971

spring-webflow: Data Binding Expression Vulnerability

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5

CVSS 3.0

Review impact separately from score.

Published · May 31, 2017

Updated · May 13, 2026

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.

Statement

This issue affects the versions of spring-webflow as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having (Low|Moderate) security impact. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CWE not specified