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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

Published Dec 2, 2006

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.

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Remediation

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No CWE recorded.

References (5)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Dec 2, 2006
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Nov 21, 2006
Link CVE-2006-6071
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Link CVE-2006-6071
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2006-6071