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CVE-2024-37085

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CVE-2024-37085

Published: Jun 25, 2024

Modified: Oct 21, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

6.8

MEDIUM

Description

VMware ESXi contains an authentication bypass vulnerability. A malicious actor with sufficient Active Directory (AD) permissions can gain full access to an ESXi host that was previously configured to use AD for user management https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/09/joining-vsphere-hosts-to-active-directory.html by re-creating the configured AD group ('ESXi Admins' by default) after it was deleted from AD.

VendorProductVersions

n/a

VMware ESXi

affected
8.0 - < ESXi80U3-24022510
affected
7.0

n/a

VMware Cloud Foundation

affected
5.x
affected
4.x

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

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