Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 22, 2006· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2006-2531

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".

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Affected products

Ipswitch, Inc./Whatsup
cpe:2.3:a:ipswitch:whatsup:professional_2006:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Ipswitch, Inc./Whatsup Professionalllm-fuzzy

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

www.ftusecurity.com/pub/whatsup.public.pdfnvd
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434247/100/0/threadednvd
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434447/100/0/threadednvd
www.securityfocus.com/bid/18019nvd
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1849nvd
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26529nvd

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