CVE-2006-6071: Twiki

High severity, CVSS 9.0. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 Twiki: up to and including 4.0.5

Published 2006-12-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.