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SCA: security update for org.springframework.webflow:spring-webflow (GHSA-fg9w-cffm-pmh2)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 414501

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2017-4971)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fg9w-cffm-pmh2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 414501

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 1/27/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-4971

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/31/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-4971

BID: 98785