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CVE-2017-4971

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-4971 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Pivotal Spring Web Flow through version 2.4.4. It allows for malicious Expression Language (EL) injection in view states that process form submissions, specifically when the MvcViewFactoryCreator useSpringBinding property is left at its default 'false' setting and explicit data binding property mappings are not declared. The attack requires high attack complexity but can lead to high integrity impact, with no confidentiality or availability impact. While the vulnerability has a high FAUCET Risk Score, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_web_flow:2.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_web_flow:2.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.4.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_web_flow:2.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.4.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_web_flow:2.4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.9MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
15.86%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1586 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 19,956 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.springframework.webflow:spring-webflowFixed in: 2.4.5
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3Fixed in: jasperreports-server-pro

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-fg9w-cffm-pmh2medium

Insecure Default Initialization of Resource in Pivotal Spring Web Flow

May 13, 2022
redhatCVE-2017-4971Moderate

spring-webflow: Data Binding Expression Vulnerability

May 31, 2017

References

jira.spring.io / browse/SWF-1700
Issue TrackingPatch
pivotal.io / security/cve-2017-4971
MitigationPatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/98785
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry