Vulnerability CVE-2006-2531
Published: 2006-05-22   Modified: 2012-02-12

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".

Type:

CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Ipswitch -> Whatsup 

 References:
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
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