The Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) invoking objects on remote machine.
It is XML-based messaging thus run on top of HTTP/HTTPS.
That is the reason why firewall cannot significant block them.
An announcement issued by HUAWEI. For more details, please refer below url for reference.
Security Advisory – Six Vulnerabilities in Some Huawei Products
http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20180207-01-soap-en
This is a impressive story. Thanks!