🛡️ CVE-2024-37085
🟡 CVSS 6.8 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-287 NVD
6.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

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.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-287
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-06-25
Updated 2026-06-02
Modified 2025-10-30

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
cloud-foundation 4.0 5.2
esxi

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