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.

Related CVEs

CVE-2024-37085

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-485m-923f-95wx

Published

June 25, 2024 3:31 PM

Last Modified

August 8, 2024 3:31 PM

CVSS Score

5.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: June 16, 2025 6:25 AM

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