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Improper Authentication

CVE-2008-1262

High
10/10

Summary

The administration panel on the Airspan WiMax ProST 4.1 antenna with 6.5.38.0 software does not verify authentication credentials, which allows remote attackers to (1) upload malformed firmware or (2) bind the antenna to a different WiMAX base station via unspecified requests to forms under process_adv/.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • COMPLETE
  • COMPLETE
  • COMPLETE

CWE-287 - Improper Authentication

Improper (or broken) authentication attacks are widespread, and have accounted for many of the worst data breaches in recent years. Improper authentication attacks are a class of vulnerabilities where an attacker impersonates a legitimate user by exploiting weaknesses in either session management or credential management to gain access to the user’s account. This can result in disclosure of sensitive information, and can lead to system compromise, theft, identity theft, and fraud.

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