CVE-2008-1542 — Airspan Base Station Distribution Unit (BSDU) has "topsecret" as its password for the root account, which allows remote attackers to obtain administrative access via a telnet login, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-1262

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Airspan Base Station Distribution Unit (BSDU) has "topsecret" as its password for the root account, which allows remote attackers to obtain administrative access via a telnet login, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-1262

Published Mar 28, 2008

7.5

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.79%

Description

Airspan Base Station Distribution Unit (BSDU) has "topsecret" as its password for the root account, which allows remote attackers to obtain administrative access via a telnet login, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-1262.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.79% 0.01789

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01789

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (11 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 2, 2026	1.79% (0.01789)	77.58th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.79% (0.01789)	75.41th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jan 6, 2026	2.09% (0.02087)	83.54th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	0.88% (0.00884)	73.79th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	1.36% (0.01359)	86.78th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Apr 11, 2024	1.12% (0.01121)	84.39th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	1.12% (0.01121)	82.38th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.14% (0.01136)	59.45th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Oct 18, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	58.28th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	56.27th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	34.23th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-255

References (3)

http://airspan4wimax.googlepages.com/
x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/446403
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41437
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://airspan4wimax.googlepages.com/		x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/446403		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41437		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Mar 28, 2008

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Mar 28, 2008

Link CVE-2008-1542

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2008-1542

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2008-1542