CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-37085

7.2 HIGH Known exploited Published 2024-06-25 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

VMware ESXi Authentication Bypass Vulnerability — VMware ESXi

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 by re-creating the configured AD group ('ESXi Admins' by default) after it was deleted from AD.

Added to KEV
2024-07-30
Remediation due
2024-08-20
Ransomware use
Known
Required action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Notes
https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/24505; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-37085
Status
Analyzed
Published
2024-06-25
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-287, CWE-305

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 configurations

• vmware cloud foundation (>= 4.0 < 5.2) • vmware esxi 7.0 • vmware esxi 8.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness
  • CWE-305 Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness weakness

References