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ICSA-25-177-01: Mitsubishi Electric Air Conditioning Systems (Update B) ↗ source

June 26, 2025 CISA ICS Advisory

Summary

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to bypass authentication to gain unauthorized control of the air conditioning system or access sensitive information stored in the system. The attacker may also use the disclosed sensitive information to tamper with the firmware of the affected products. CVE-2025-3699: An authentication bypass vulnerability exists in Mitsubishi Electric air conditioning systems. An attacker may bypass authentication to gain unauthorized control or access sensitive information stored within the system. The attacker may use the disclosed sensitive information to tamper with the firmware of the affected products.

Advisory Details CISA ICS CSAF feed

Advisory ID
ICSA-25-177-01
Status
Final · version 3
Initial release
2025-06-26
Last revised
2025-12-23 (3 revisions)
Vendor
Mitsubishi Electric
Critical infrastructure sectors
Commercial Facilities
Deployed
Worldwide
Vendor headquarters
Japan

No known public exploitation specifically targeting this vulnerability has been reported to CISA at this time.

Credit: Mihály Csonka

Affected products (27)
  • G-50 — all versions
  • G-50-W — all versions
  • G-50A — all versions
  • GB-50 — all versions
  • GB-50A — all versions
  • GB-24A — all versions
  • G-150AD — all versions
  • AG-150A-A — all versions
  • AG-150A-J — all versions
  • GB-50AD — all versions
  • GB-50ADA-A — all versions
  • GB-50ADA-J — all versions
  • EB-50GU-A — all versions
  • EB-50GU-J — all versions
  • AE-200J — all versions
  • AE-200A — all versions
  • AE-200E — all versions
  • AE-50J — all versions
  • AE-50A — all versions
  • AE-50E — all versions
  • EW-50J — all versions
  • EW-50A — all versions
  • EW-50E — all versions
  • TE-200A — all versions
  • TE-50A — all versions
  • TW-50A — all versions
  • CMS-RMD-J — all versions
Revision history (3)
  • 2025-12-23 — v3: Update B - Changed affected products and mitigations.
  • 2025-08-21 — v2: Update A - Wording changes for risk and vulnerability description.
  • 2025-06-26 — v1: Initial Publication

From CISA's machine-readable CSAF 2.0 advisory (JSON).

Vulnerabilities as Stated by the Advisory

CVEWeaknessCVSS v3Details
CVE-2025-3699 CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Function 9.8 Critical An authentication bypass vulnerability exists in Mitsubishi Electric air conditioning systems. An attacker may bypass authentication to gain unauthorized control or access sensitive information stored within the system. The attacker may use the disclosed sensitive information to tamper with the firmware of the affected products.

Mitigation: To minimize the risk of exploitation, ensure that air conditioning systems are configured according to Mitsubishi Electric's recommendations. Mitsubishi Electric recommends taking the following mitigation measures:

Mitigation: Restrict access to air conditioning systems from untrusted networks and hosts.

Mitigation: Restrict physical access to air conditioning systems, computers which can access them, and the network which is connected to them.

Affected, fixed & timeline

Affected:

  • G-50 all versions
  • G-50-W all versions
  • G-50A all versions
  • GB-50 all versions
  • GB-50A all versions
  • GB-24A all versions
  • G-150AD all versions
  • AG-150A-A all versions
  • AG-150A-J all versions
  • GB-50AD all versions
  • GB-50ADA-A all versions
  • GB-50ADA-J all versions
  • EB-50GU-A all versions
  • EB-50GU-J all versions
  • AE-200J all versions
  • … and 12 more

Mitigation: Use antivirus software and ensure that the operating system and web browser are updated to the latest versions on computers that connect to air conditioning systems.

Mitigation: Access restriction settings are available for the following models and versions. Depending on your environment, Mitsubishi Electric recommends enabling these settings to block access from untrusted hosts. Refer to section 6-3-3, ‘Access Restriction Settings,' in the Instruction Book – Initial Settings for usage instructions.

Mitigation: The following models and versions support access restriction settings:

Vendor fix: AE-200J Ver.8.03 or later

Vendor fix: AE-200A Ver.8.03 or later

Vendor fix: AE-200E Ver.8.03 or later

Vendor fix: AE-50J Ver.8.03 or later

Vendor fix: AE-50A Ver.8.03 or later

Vendor fix: AE-50E Ver.8.03 or later

Vendor fix: EW-50J Ver.8.03 or later

Vendor fix: EW-50A Ver.8.03 or later

Vendor fix: EW-50E Ver.8.03 or later

Vendor fix: TE-200A Ver.8.03 or later

Vendor fix: TE-50A Ver.8.03 or later

Vendor fix: TW-50A Ver.8.03 or later

Mitigation: Refer to Mitsubishi Electric's security bulletin for more information, including instructions for verifying the product version.

Scores and weakness types are as CISA or the republishing vendor stated them in this advisory; the linked CVE pages carry the independently enriched CVSS and SSVC assessments.

News Coverage

No coverage found in monitored research blogs or news feeds.

CVEs Referenced in This Publication

CVECVSSAffected
CVE-2025-3699 9.8 Critical Mitsubishi Electric Corporation G-50 Missing Authentication for Critical Function vulnerability in Mitsubishi Electric Corporation G-50 all versions, G-50-W all versions, G-50A all versi…

Named by the advisory itself. Each CVE links to its tracked detail page.

Vendors Named in This Publication

No KEV-catalogued vendors are named in this publication.