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TWiki Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA23189
Release Date: 2006-12-01
Last Update: 2006-12-04
Popularity: 8,084 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Exposure of sensitive information
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Workaround

Software:TWiki

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Solution:
Restrict access to the TWiki installation.

As a hotfix the vendor recommends to change the "ErrorDocument" line in httpd.conf or .htaccess, which prevents current attacks, but might not be a complete fix (see vendor advisory for details).

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits George Clark.

Changelog:
2006-12-04: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/SecurityAlert-CVE-2006-6071

Change Page:
[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]



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