CVE-2024-37085
CISA KEV RANSOMWARE
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Priority: 0.00
BB Relevance:
5/100
Published: N/A
Modified: N/A
First seen: 2026-10-29
Status: pending_score
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.
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
Vendor / Product
VMware — ESXi
Date Added
2024-07-30
Remediation Due
2024-08-20
Ransomware Use
CONFIRMED
https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/24505; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-37085