CVE-2006-2531 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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".

Published: 2006-05-22

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: 4.8% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:ipswitch:whatsup:professional_2006:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2006-2531	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".

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.04781.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.ftusecurity.com/pub/whatsup.public.pdf
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434247/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434447/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18019
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1849
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26529

History

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Subscriptions

Ipswitch Whatsup

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-05-22T23:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T17:51:04.633Z

Reserved: 2006-05-22T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-2531

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-05-22T23:10:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2006-2531

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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