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Security Advisory - Improper Integrity Checking Vulnerability on some Huawei Products

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20200311-01-integrity
  • Initial Release Date: 2020-03-11
  • Last Release Date: 2020-03-11

There is an improper integrity checking vulnerability on some huawei products. The software of the affected product has an improper integrity check which may allow an attacker with high privilege to make malicious modifications. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2019-10070)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-1879.
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-20200311-01-integrity-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

HEGE-560

1.0.1.21(SP3)

Upgrade to 1.0.1.23(SP2)

HEGE-570

1.0.1.22(SP3)

Upgrade to 1.0.1.23(SP2)

OSCA-550

1.0.1.21(SP3)

Upgrade to 1.0.1.23(SP2)

OSCA-550A

1.0.1.21(SP3)

Upgrade to 1.0.1.23(SP2)

OSCA-550AX

1.0.1.21(SP3)

Upgrade to 1.0.1.23(SP2)

OSCA-550X

1.0.1.21(SP3)

Upgrade to 1.0.1.23(SP2)


Successful exploit may allow an attacker to make malicious modifications.


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

Base Score: 5.6 (AV:P/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H)

Temporal Score: 5.2 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

Overall Score: 5.2


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

The attacker can access the affected products physically.

Vulnerability details:

The software of the affected products has an improper integrity check which may allow an attacker with high privilege to make malicious modifications.


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

This vulnerability was discovered by Huawei internal tester.



2020-03-11 V1.0 INITIAL

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