An issue was discovered in Pivotal Spring Web Flow through 2.4.5. 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. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-4971.

Affected Packages

Maven org.springframework.webflow:spring-webflow

Affected versions: 0 (fixed in 2.4.6)

Related CVEs

CVE-2017-8039

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-q4v9-qjmw-j7vf

Published

May 13, 2022 1:47 AM

Last Modified

June 30, 2022 9:13 PM

CVSS Score

5.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Maven

Primary Package

org.springframework.webflow:spring-webflow

GitHub Reviewed

✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: August 31, 2025 6:33 AM

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