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CVE-2024-37085

medium · 6.8Actively exploited

On the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Added 2024-07-30Remediation due 2024-08-20

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.

6.8
CVSS
26.8%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
98th
EPSS percentile
2024-06-25
Published

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

Weaknesses

CWE-287CWE-305

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
vmwarecloud_foundation>= 4.0, < 5.2
vmwareesxi7.0
vmwareesxi8.0
vmwareesxi8.0
vmwareesxi8.0
vmwareesxi8.0
vmwareesxi8.0
vmwareesxi8.0
vmwareesxi8.0
vmwareesxi8.0
vmwareesxi8.0
vmwareesxi8.0
vmwareesxi8.0

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References

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