The latest oversight report, released in March 2019, offered a devastating evaluation. It found “several hundred” vulnerabilities in Huawei software, including “unprotected stack overflows in publicly accessible protocols, protocol robustness errors leading to denial of service, logic errors, cryptographic weaknesses, default credentials and many other basic vulnerability types.” In layman’s terms, that means Huawei’s software had as many holes as Swiss cheese. 6park.com
Even after the oversight board delivered a September 2018 warning, “the product continues to demonstrate a significant number of major defects.” Overall, said the board, “there has been little improvement” in fixing “serious and systematic defects.” The board said it could give “only limited assurance” about safety and security. 6park.com
And these are just the flaws caused by sloppy coding and poor cyber-hygiene. They don’t include the back doors and deliberate, malign tools that U.S. officials believe Huawei has hidden in its products.Huawei’s defects were so severe that British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab in January designated the company a “high-risk vendor” whose market share should be capped at 35 percent. The Trump administration bashed the Brits for buying any products at all from the Chinese company, but the deeper takeaway from the British decision was its fear of dependence on Huawei.