CVE-2017-8039
spring-webflow: Data Binding Expression Vulnerability in Spring Web Flow
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
Review impact separately from score.
Published · September 15, 2017
Updated · May 13, 2026
Description
An issue was discovered in Pivotal Spring Web Flow through 2.4.5. 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. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-4971.
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 · 5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE not specified