Vulnerability in Ipswitch Whatsup
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".
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.074 (94.2th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 94th percentile — 94.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.074 · newest: 0.074 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Ipswitch Whatsup — versions professional_2006
References
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434247/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434447/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1849 (vdb-entry)
- www.ftusecurity.com/pub/whatsup.public.pdf
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/18019 (vdb-entry)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26529 (vdb-entry)