CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-6071
9.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-12-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
TWiki 4.0.5 and earlier, when running under Apache 1.3 using ApacheLogin with sessions and "ErrorDocument 401" redirects to a valid wiki topic, does not properly handle failed login attempts, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary content by cancelling out of a failed authentication with a valid username and invalid password.
Affected configurations
• twiki twiki (<= 4.0.5)
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23189 Vendor Advisory
- http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/SecurityAlert-CVE-2006-6071 twiki.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21381 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4790 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30667 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23189 Vendor Advisory
- http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/SecurityAlert-CVE-2006-6071 twiki.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21381 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4790 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30667 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com