PT-2017-16234 · Pivotal · Spring Web Flow

Stefano Ciccone · Published 2017-06-13 · Updated 2022-05-13 · CVE-2017-4971

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Pivotal Spring Web Flow versions prior to 2.4.5

Description The issue concerns malicious EL expressions in view states that process form submissions. This can affect applications that do not change the value of the useSpringBinding property, which is disabled by default.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.4.5, update to version 2.4.5 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider enabling the useSpringBinding property to prevent malicious EL expressions.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-1188

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-4971

GHSA-FG9W-CFFM-PMH2

Affected Products

Spring Web Flow

References · 7

• 🔥 http://bobao.360.cn/learning/detail/3963.html · Exploit
• https://jira.spring.io/browse/SWF-1700 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-4971 · Security Note
• https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2017-4971 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-fg9w-cffm-pmh2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-4971 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/98785 · Note