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…
- 5.9MediumCVSS base score
- 14.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By dell
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 14.7% · top 3.3% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.9.
Affected products
Spring Web Flow
- affected Spring Web Flow
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.springframework.webflow:spring-webflowGHSA-fg9w-cffm-pmh2 (opens in a new tab)
References
3
- 98785 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2017-4971 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://jira.spring.io/browse/SWF-1700 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-3775 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-fg9w-cffm-pmh2 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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