GHSA-fg9w-cffm-pmh2

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    GHSA-fg9w-cffm-pmh2

    Published: 13 May 2022Last Modified: 8 Nov 2023
    Aliases:
    CVE-2017-4971

    Summary: Insecure Default Initialization of Resource in Pivotal Spring Web Flow

    Details: 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.

    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

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: org.springframework.webflow:spring-webflow

    Purl: pkg:maven/org.springframework.webflow/spring-webflow

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 2.4.0
    Fixed -2.4.5

    Affected versions

    2.4.0.RELEASE
    2.4.1.RELEASE
    2.4.2.RELEASE
    2.4.4.RELEASE

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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