CVE-2017-8039
Insecure Default Initialization of Resource in Pivotal Spring Web Flow
5.9
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.18%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2017-8039
To remediate CVE-2017-8039, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 2.4.6 or later
Is CVE-2017-8039 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 2.4.6
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.9 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |