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GHSA-485M-923F-95WX

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-06-25 15:31 – Updated: 2025-10-22 00:33

Details

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.

Severity

6.8 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2024-37085 (GCVE-0-2024-37085)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-06-25 14:16 – Updated: 2025-10-21 22:56

Summary

Severity

6.8 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: active Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-07-31 03:55 UTC

CWE

Authentication bypass vulnerability
CWE-305 - Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness

Assigner

vmware CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 64/100 over 253 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-cont…
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilit…	government-resource

Impacted products

6 products

Vendor	Product	Version
n/a	VMware ESXi	Affected: 8.0 , < ESXi80U3-24022510 (custom) Affected: 7.0
n/a	VMware Cloud Foundation	Affected: 5.x Affected: 4.x
vmware	esxi	Affected: 7.0 cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:-::::::
vmware	cloud_foundation	Affected: 5.0 , < 5.2 (custom) cpe:2.3:a:vmware:cloud_foundation:5.0:::::::*
vmware	cloud_foundation	Affected: 4.0 , < 5.0 (custom) cpe:2.3:a:vmware:cloud_foundation:4.0:::::::*
vmware	esxi	Affected: 8.0 , < ESXi80U3-24022510 (custom) cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:8.0:::::::*

Date Public

2024-06-25 01:30

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