CVE-2024-37085

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.

Affected products

Vmware Esxi

Vmware Cloud Foundation

< 5.2

Vmware Esxi

= 7.0, 8.0

CVSS 3.1

7.2 HIGH

EPSS

26.8% (98th percentile)

Weakness

CWE-305, CWE-287

NVD status

Analyzed

Published

2024-06-25