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CVE-2006-2531

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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".

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published5/22/2006

Last Modified4/16/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

ipswitch:whatsup

References

http://www.ftusecurity.com/pub/whatsup.public.pdf(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434247/100/0/threaded(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434447/100/0/threaded(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18019(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1849(cve@mitre.org)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26529(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.ftusecurity.com/pub/whatsup.public.pdf(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434247/100/0/threaded(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434447/100/0/threaded(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18019(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1849(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26529(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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