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Medium · 6.8 Known exploited · Ransomware Public exploit CVE-2024-37085 EUVD-2024-36416GHSA-485m-923f-95wx

VMware ESXi contains an authentication bypass vulnerability. A malicious actor with sufficient Active Directory (AD) permissions can gain f…

Published Jun 25, 2024 · Updated Oct 21, 2025 · Assigned by vmware

Category: Virtualization

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— VMware ESXi 8.0 – < ESXi80U3-24022510, 7.0 ESXi80U3-24022510
— VMware Cloud Foundation 5.x, 4.x —

Public exploits

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GitHub 3 repositories

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