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CVE-2024-37085
CWE-287
High
84.9
RPSRPS range: 0–105; KEV-listed vulnerabilities can receive an exploitation amplifier.
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.
Source: NVD
Signals
- CVSS
- 6.8
- Medium · v3.1
- EPSS
- 26.77%
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (FIRST)
- CISA KEV
- In CISA KEV since Jul 2024
- Fix commit
- No known fix commit
- Sources: MoreFixes, FreshFixes
- Weakness
- CWE-287
- CWE-287, CWE-305
- Published
- 25 Jun 2024
- Last modified 30 Oct 2025
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Data as of 7 Oct 2026, 05:16 UK time