Security Advisory

CVE-2024-37085

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-06-25 14:16:01
Last updated 2025-10-21 22:56:21
Assigner vmware
State PUBLISHED

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.