CVE-2006-6071
TWiki 4.0.5 and earlier, when running under Apache 1.3 using ApacheLogin with sessions and "ErrorDocument 401" redirects to a valid wiki…
- 9.0HighCVSS base score
- 2.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 17% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 11 days later
· 11 days later
Published
- 18 years later
· 18 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High9.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.2% · top 17% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
5
- 21381 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- twiki-401response-authentication-bypass(30667) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 23189 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2006-4790 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/SecurityAlert-CVE-2006-6071 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2006-6054 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2006-6071)Record last updated .