{ "CVE_data_meta" : { "ASSIGNER" : "cve@mitre.org", "ID" : "CVE-2006-2531", "STATE" : "PUBLIC" }, "affects" : { "vendor" : { "vendor_data" : [ { "product" : { "product_data" : [ { "product_name" : "n/a", "version" : { "version_data" : [ { "version_value" : "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name" : "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format" : "MITRE", "data_type" : "CVE", "data_version" : "4.0", "description" : { "description_data" : [ { "lang" : "eng", "value" : "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\"." } ] }, "problemtype" : { "problemtype_data" : [ { "description" : [ { "lang" : "eng", "value" : "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references" : { "reference_data" : [ { "name" : "20060517 What's Up Professional Spoofing Authentication Bypass", "refsource" : "BUGTRAQ", "url" : "http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434247/100/0/threaded" }, { "name" : "20060517 Re: [Full-disclosure] What's Up Professional Spoofing Authentication Bypass", "refsource" : "BUGTRAQ", "url" : "http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434447/100/0/threaded" }, { "name" : "http://www.ftusecurity.com/pub/whatsup.public.pdf", "refsource" : "MISC", "url" : "http://www.ftusecurity.com/pub/whatsup.public.pdf" }, { "name" : "18019", "refsource" : "BID", "url" : "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18019" }, { "name" : "ADV-2006-1849", "refsource" : "VUPEN", "url" : "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1849" }, { "name" : "whatsup-http-auth-bypass(26529)", "refsource" : "XF", "url" : "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26529" } ] } }