Skip to content
Heist/ feed
Back to feed
Medium

Security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2017-8039

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.

Products
Not specified
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
Not specified
CVEs
CVE-2017-8039
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 06:10 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2017-8039

core-osv · Original source

Published 27 Nov 2017, 10:29 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2017-8039
Complete source record
{
  "id": "46c3d0669faa9852be38870c3a1e4c0bd67a48fef14ef6e5a4a93c13a0bfa5f1",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-8039",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-8039",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-8039",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2017-8039",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2017-8039",
        "GHSA-q4v9-qjmw-j7vf"
      ],
      "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": "57f2ccb66946943fbf3b3f2165eac1c8eb6b1523"
                }
              ],
              "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"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:spring_web_flow:2.4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.4.5"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.4.5"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "2.4.0",
            "2.4.1",
            "2.4.2",
            "2.4.4",
            "2.4.5"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-8039.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:36.384353859Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2017-8039"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2017-8039",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 433960,
  "published_at": "2017-11-27T10:29:00.847+00:00"
}