HIGHCVSS v3.1 7.2Actively exploited · CISA KEV since 2024-07-30Vulnerability

CVE-2024-37085

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.

Properties

Vulnerability name
VMware ESXi Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
Epss score
0.2677
Last seen
2026-10-19T12:00:27+00:00
Due date
2024-08-20
Exploited euvd since
2024-07-30T00:00:00+00:00
Source url
https://epss.empiricalsecurity.com/epss_scores-2026-10-19.csv.gz
Date added
2024-07-30
Score
7.2
Euvd base score version
3.1
Euvd vendor
VMware
In Signal since
initial import (Sep 2026)
Euvd base score
6.8
Vendor project
VMware
Content hash
3915262ad089f35026f59b50822db13ff06e95a1ae2effb1e7de2c95b424d0ee
Published at
2024-06-25T15:15:12.377
Euvd updated
2025-10-21T22:56:21+00:00
Last modified
2026-06-17T07:37:43.940
Euvd epss pct
26.77
Epss percentile
0.98019
Licence
FIRST EPSS: free to use; attribution requested in publications or products (FAQ)

Related Entities (19)

AFFECTS_PRODUCT (13)

→[Product]cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:8.0:a:*:*:*:*:*:*
→[Product]cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:8.0:update_2b:*:*:*:*:*:*
→[Product]cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:8.0:b:*:*:*:*:*:*
→[Product]cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:8.0:update_1c:*:*:*:*:*:*
→[Product]cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
→[Product]cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:8.0:update_1:*:*:*:*:*:*
→[Product]cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:8.0:update_1d:*:*:*:*:*:*
→[Product]cpe:2.3:a:vmware:cloud_foundation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
→[Product]cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:8.0:c:*:*:*:*:*:*
→[Product]cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:8.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
→[Product]cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:8.0:update_1a:*:*:*:*:*:*
→[Product]cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:8.0:update_2:*:*:*:*:*:*
→[Product]cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:8.0:update_2c:*:*:*:*:*:*

HAS_WEAKNESS (2)

→[Weakness]Improper Authentication
→[Weakness]Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness

MENTIONED_IN (2)

→[Campaign]Unnamed campaign (ID 69bd…)
→[Campaign]An Overview of The Gentlemen's TTPs

DESCRIBES (1)

←[KEVEntry]VMware ESXi Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

INVOLVES (1)

←[Signal]kev_added · 2024-07-30

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