CVE-2006-2531

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 7.4%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDMay 22

1st PoCMay 17

exploitation probability

7.4%top 6% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

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".

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/27891

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References

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