CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-2531
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-05-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
Ipswitch WhatsUp Professional 2006 only verifies the user's identity via HTTP headers, which allows remote attackers to spoof being a trusted console and bypass authentication by setting HTTP User-Agent header to "Ipswitch/1.0" and the User-Application header to "NmConsole".
Affected configurations
• ipswitch whatsup professional 2006
References
- http://www.ftusecurity.com/pub/whatsup.public.pdf www.ftusecurity.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434247/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434447/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18019 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1849 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26529 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://www.ftusecurity.com/pub/whatsup.public.pdf www.ftusecurity.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434247/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434447/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18019 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1849 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26529 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com