CVE-2017-4971Medium· 5.9▾ TwilightPoC availableAn 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 m…
▾ Twilight zone — High severity, or a signal on a lesser flaw
impact 32.5 · likelihood 2.4 · exploitation 12
A public proof-of-concept already exists for this vulnerability — see Exploit availability below.
Public exploit / PoC code seen in 1 source. Availability, not in-the-wild use.
Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Sep 8.
Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via NVD
Last analysed / modified upstream
16%
16% → 17%
1 GitHub repo (last check)
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.
spring_web_flow = 2.4.0spring_web_flow = 2.4.1spring_web_flow = 2.4.2spring_web_flow = 2.4.4Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.
Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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