CVE detail
CVE-2024-37085 — VMware ESXi Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
Published 2024-07-30 · Modified 2024-07-30 · Source kev
HIGH
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.2595
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
98.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
LISTED
CISA KEV
due 2024-08-20
⚠ Actively exploited in the wild — CISA KEV listed 2024-07-30, federal remediation due 2024-08-20. RANSOMWARE
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 by re-creating the configured AD group ('ESXi Admins' by default) after it was deleted from AD.
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References