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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.8 Medium

CVE-2024-37085

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 previ

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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

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

n/a VMware ESXi

Default version status: unaffected

  • 8.0 to < ESXi80U3-24022510affected
  • 7.0affected

n/a VMware Cloud Foundation

Default version status: unaffected

  • 5.xaffected
  • 4.xaffected

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