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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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2006-6054 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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T20:12:31.587Z

Reserved: 2006-11-21T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2006-6071

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2006-12-02T02:28:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2006-6071

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