CVE-2023-4486 — Under certain circumstances, invalid authentication credentials could be sent to

Under certain circumstances, invalid authentication credentials could be sent to the login endpoint of Johnson Controls Metasys NAE55, SNE, and SNC engines prior to

01What is this vulnerability?

Under certain circumstances, invalid authentication credentials could be sent to the login endpoint of Johnson Controls Metasys NAE55, SNE, and SNC engines prior to

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Johnson Controls	Metasys NAE55/SNE/SNC	12.0, 11.0
Johnson Controls	Facility Explorer F4	SNC — 12.0, 11.0

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-12-07T19:55:39.265Z
• Last modified: 2025-05-28T13:52:00.866Z

09References

• www.johnsoncontrols.com — https://www.johnsoncontrols.com/cyber-solutions/security-advisories
• www.cisa.gov — https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-23-341-03