CVE-2006-2531 Information

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.

Reference

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