CVE-2006-2531 (GCVE-0-2006-2531)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-05-22 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 17:51
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Summary
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".
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2006-05-17 00:00
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