Security advisory

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  "id": "bf7d9614cf3153754deb48bee831b2a50b6790b75e8b5baadf026f1b58edcb51",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-4971",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-4971",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-4971",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2017-4971",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2017-4971",
        "GHSA-fg9w-cffm-pmh2"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-webflow",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "1a125e5801039ffa959934d31939217be73b88c8"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "b38d586b6a047467c3c79c95fca8d432bd1061ce"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:spring_web_flow:2.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.4.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.4.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:spring_web_flow:2.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.4.1"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.4.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:spring_web_flow:2.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.4.2"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.4.2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:spring_web_flow:2.4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.4.4"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.4.4"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "2.4.0",
            "2.4.1",
            "2.4.2",
            "2.4.4"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-4971.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:56.419531012Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://jira.spring.io/browse/SWF-1700",
        "https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2017-4971"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2017-4971",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 438675,
  "published_at": "2017-06-13T06:29:00.597+00:00"
}