> CVE-2021-22434: Huawei Arbitrary Write in BootROM USB Stack

Summary During the regular boot sequence, Huawei’s BootROM initializes the UFS hardware and the crypto engine in order to load and verify the next stage bootloader image from flash. However, when run in download mode, which maybe used for factory flashing and repair purposes, a connected host can communicate with the BootROM via USB over a serial communication channel. The basis of the communication is a slightly modified version of XMODEM protocol. The first frame to be sent must be the head chunk, which defines the destination address and the size of the file to be downloaded via the following data chunks.