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Security Advisory - Insufficient Integrity Validation Vulnerability in Several Products

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20200408-01-osca
  • Initial Release Date: 2020-04-08
  • Last Release Date: 2020-04-08

There is an insufficient integrity validation vulnerability in several products. The device does not sufficiently validate the integrity of certain file in certain loading processes, successful exploit could allow the attacker to load a crafted file to the device through USB. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2020-01100)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-1802.

Huawei has released software updates to fix this vulnerability. This advisory is available at the following link:

http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20200408-01-osca-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

OSCA-550

1.0.1.23(SP2)

Upgrade to 1.0.1.25(SP2)

OSCA-550A

1.0.1.23(SP2)

Upgrade to 1.0.1.25(SP2)

OSCA-550AX

1.0.1.23(SP2)

Upgrade to 1.0.1.25(SP2)

OSCA-550X

1.0.1.23(SP2)

Upgrade to 1.0.1.25(SP2)

Successful exploit could allow the attacker to load a crafted file to the device through USB.


The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).

Base Score: 5.7 (AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H)

Temporal Score: 5.3 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:

The attacker could access the device through USB and craft a file.

Vulnerability details:

The device does not sufficiently validate the integrity of certain file in certain loading processes, successful exploit could allow the attacker to load a crafted file to the device through USB. 


The devices that support automatic update will receive a system update prompt. You can install the update to fix the vulnerability.

This vulnerability was reported to Huawei PSIRT by an external security researcher. Huawei would like to thank this researcher for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.


2020-04-08 V1.0 INITIAL


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