CVE-2025-61738 (GCVE-0-2025-61738)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-22 10:07 – Updated: 2025-12-22 14:09
VLAI?
Title
Johnson Controls PowerG and IQPanel cleartext transmission of sensitive information
Summary
Under certain circumstances, attacker can capture the network key, read or write encrypted packets on the PowerG network.
Severity ?
2.3 (Low)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
  • CWE-319 - Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information
Assigner
jci
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Johnson Controls IQPanel2, IQHub,IQPanel2+,IQPanel 4,PowerG Affected: IQPanel2 , ≤ 2 (custom)
Affected: IQHub (custom)
Affected: IQPanel2+ , ≤ 2+ (custom)
Affected: ,IQPanel 4 , ≤ 4.6.0 (custom)
Affected: PowerG , ≤ 53.02 (custom)
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Credits
James Chambers of NCC Group Sultan Qasim Khan of NCC Group
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