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CVE-2006-2531

31
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-2531 describes an authentication bypass vulnerability in Ipswitch WhatsUp Professional 2006. Attackers can spoof a trusted console by manipulating HTTP User-Agent and User-Application headers, thereby bypassing authentication. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating high severity with potential for partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts, requiring no authentication and low attack complexity. While not listed on the CISA KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
professional_2006CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ipswitch:whatsup:professional_2006:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
7.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-27891 · May 17, 2006
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0736 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

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