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A vulnerability was found in TWiki 4.0.5 (Content Management System). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The weakness was shared 12/01/2006 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at vupen.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2006-6071 since 11/21/2006. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The successful exploitation needs a single authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

It is declared as proof-of-concept.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (30667).

Productinfo

Type

• Content Management System

Name

• TWiki

Version

• 4.0.5

CPE 2.3info

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CPE 2.2info

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CVSSv4info

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.8
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.7

VulDB Base Score: 8.8
VulDB Temp Score: 7.7
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VulDB Reliability: 🔍

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
ATT&CK: T1592

Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔍
Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
Status: 🔍

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Timelineinfo

11/21/2006 🔍
11/30/2006 +9 days 🔍
12/01/2006 +0 days 🔍
12/01/2006 +0 days 🔍
12/01/2006 +0 days 🔍
03/12/2015 +3023 days 🔍
08/09/2018 +1246 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: vupen.com⛔
Status: Confirmed
Confirmation: 🔍

CVE: CVE-2006-6071 (🔍)
X-Force: 30667 - TWiki 401 response authentication bypass
SecurityFocus: 21381 - TWiki Failed Login Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Secunia: 23189 - TWiki Authentication Bypass Vulnerability, Moderately Critical
Vupen: ADV-2006-4790

Entryinfo

Created: 03/12/2015 22:21
Updated: 08/09/2018 07:27
Changes: 03/12/2015 22:21 (51), 08/09/2018 07:27 (7)
Complete: 🔍

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