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…

high7.2CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRHUINSUCHIHAH

KEVITW

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilitydue 2024-08-20

Exploited in the wild

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

3 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
vmware	cloud_foundation	>= 4.0 < 5.2	5.2
vmware	esxi	—	—
vmware	esxi	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.2HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

vulncheck6.8MEDIUM

cisa7.2HIGH