CVE-2024-37085

Summary

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 Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
n/aVMware ESXi8.0 < ESXi80U3-24022510affected
n/aVMware ESXi7.0affected
n/aVMware Cloud Foundation5.xaffected
n/aVMware Cloud Foundation4.xaffected

Weaknesses

  • Authentication bypass vulnerability

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: active
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: total

Additional References

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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