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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS1mZzl3LWNmZm0tcG1oMs4AASVC

Insecure Default Initialization of Resource in Pivotal Spring Web Flow

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.

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fg9w-cffm-pmh2
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Moderate
Classification: General
Published: about 2 years ago
Updated: over 1 year ago

CVSS Score: 5.9
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Identifiers: GHSA-fg9w-cffm-pmh2, CVE-2017-4971
References:

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-4971
• https://jira.spring.io/browse/SWF-1700
• https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2017-4971
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98785
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fg9w-cffm-pmh2

Blast Radius: 19.4

Affected Packages