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".
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Ipswitch WhatsUp Professional 2006 - Authentication Bypass EDB-27891 · remote · May 17, 2006 · verified
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References
- 20060517 What's Up Professional Spoofing Authentication Bypass mailing-list
- 20060517 Re: [Full-disclosure] What's Up Professional Spoofing Authentication Bypass mailing-list
- ADV-2006-1849 vdb-entry
- http://www.ftusecurity.com/pub/whatsup.public.pdf
- 18019 vdb-entry
- whatsup-http-auth-bypass(26529) vdb-entry