CVE-2006-6071

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-12-02 · updated 2026-06-16

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 products

Twiki: through 4.0.5

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/23189
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/SecurityAlert-CVE-2006-6071
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21381
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4790
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30667
http://secunia.com/advisories/23189
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/SecurityAlert-CVE-2006-6071
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21381
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4790
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30667

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