CVE-2006-2531

Published May 22, 2006

Last updated 6 years ago

Overview

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".
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 7.5
Impact score: 6.4
Exploitability score: 10
Vector string: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:ipswitch:whatsup:professional_2006:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "B28A5682-3F0C-40B7-B502-ABA0BE339D42"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References