Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-2531

Title: Ipswitch Whatsup Auth Bypass

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2006-2531

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date May 22, 2006

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Available

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

4.78%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-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".

Impacted Vendors

ipswitch 1

Reference Links

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 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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-2531 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/27891

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April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 22, 2006 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.