CVE•Published 2017-06-13•Modified 2026-09-08•1 article on news•6 live references•NVD data

CVE-2017-4971Broadcom · Spring_web_flow

Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)

CVSS v3.1

5.9

MEDIUM

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

EPSS percentile

Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 4% of all CVEs

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-1188Initialization of a Resource with an Insecure Default

Description

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.

Timeline

Published 2017-06-13

Modified 2026-09-08

External references

NVD MITRE Exploit-DB GitHub PoC trickest/cve VulnCheck

Search for exposed instances

Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).

Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts

vuln:CVE-2017-4971

Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.

Shodan · product + version

product:"Broadcom Spring Web Flow" version:"2.4.0"

Version-pinned fingerprint from NVD's first vulnerable CPE.

Shodan · banner/body mention

http.html:"Spring Web Flow"

HTTP body or banner mentions "Spring Web Flow" — catches deploys Shodan didn't identify as a product.

More intel sources (5)

Shodan report

vuln:CVE-2017-4971