CVE-2006-2531 - Ipswitch WhatsUp Professional 2006 only verifies the user's identity via HTTP headers, which allows

CVE-2006-2531

Summary

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".

References

Vulnerable Configurations

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

CVSS

Base:	7.5 (as of 18-10-2018 - 16:40)
Impact:
Exploitability:

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

CAPEC

Access

Vector	Complexity	Authentication
NETWORK	LOW	NONE

Impact

Confidentiality	Integrity	Availability
PARTIAL	PARTIAL	PARTIAL

cvss-vector via4

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

refmap via4

bid	18019
bugtraq	20060517 Re: [Full-disclosure] What's Up Professional Spoofing Authentication Bypass 20060517 What's Up Professional Spoofing Authentication Bypass
misc	http://www.ftusecurity.com/pub/whatsup.public.pdf
vupen	ADV-2006-1849
xf	whatsup-http-auth-bypass(26529)

Last major update

18-10-2018 - 16:40

Published

22-05-2006 - 23:10

Last modified

18-10-2018 - 16:40