Half of Huawei's Network Equipment Has a Serious Security Hole

This updated guide examines Half of Huawei's Network Equipment Has a Serious Security Hole and organizes the essential facts, background, and practical takeaways in clear American English.

Finite State made an evaluation of 10,000 firmware created for a total of 558 products, including routers, 4G devices, switches, IP phones.

Finite State's research shows that more than half of the firmware contains at least one potential backdoor, a vulnerability that hackers can use to attack. 29% of Finite State tested devices use the default username and password. 424 man-in-the-middle firmware can be detected by this security company.

When comparing Huawei's high-end network device Huawei CE12800 with the equivalent of another vendor, including Arista 7280R and Juniper EX4650, the results show that Arista and Juniper devices have vulnerabilities but compared to their products. Huawei is less serious.

To see if Huawei has increased security over time, Finite State has also compared different firmware versions. The study was carried out with the CE6851 network device. The results show that the newer V200 version is less secure than the previous V100.

Prior to Finite State's report, Huawei said it was analyzing and reviewing the information.

The Chinese telecommunications company claims that its top priority is to take security seriously and that it will never allow it to set up a backdoor on its device.

Before the report was published, Huawei devices, including products for the 5G network in the future, were worried by the United States and some European countries about being able to contain backdoors to facilitate Chinese spy. Because of this, President Trump's government issued a ban on Chinese companies.

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