Title : TWiki "ErrorDocument" Directive Handling Remote Authentication Bypass Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-4790 CVE ID : CVE-2006-6071
Rated as : Moderate Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2006-11-30
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in TWiki, which could be exploited by remote attackers to bypass security restrictions. This issue is due to an error when handling failed login attempts and 401 HTTP responses redirecting to certain topics (e.g. TWikiRegistration), which could be exploited by remote attackers to bypass the authentication process and gain unauthorized read access to restricted contents.
Note : Only applications running on Apache 1.3.x web servers and using ApacheLogin and sessions, or SessionPlugin are affected.
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