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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

CWE

Authentication bypass vulnerability

Assigner

vmware

References

URL

Tags

https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-cont…

Impacted 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

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

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