Unrated severityCISA KEVNVD Advisory· Published Jun 25, 2024· Updated Oct 21, 2025

CVE-2024-37085

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

N/A/Vmware Esxiv5
Range: 8.0

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/24505mitre

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