CVE-2024-37085
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VMware ESXi contains an authentication bypass vulnerability. A malicious actor with sufficient Active Directory (AD) permissions can gain full access…
rank 74 = 40 + 18 + 1 + 9 + 6
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Someone is already using it
CISA KEV catalog · public proof-of-concept · FIRST EPSS
EPSS 0.26770 · CISA KEV listed · without this subject the record ranks 34
What it costs you if it fires
NVD CVSS base score, then the CNA's own
CVSS 7.2, from NVD · without this subject the record ranks 56
It is getting worse, not staying still
FIRST EPSS series, rescorings and bad loads removed
rose on 2025-09-08 · without this subject the record ranks 73
How much of the world it touches
NVD CPE configurations
13 products in the CPE ranges · without this subject the record ranks 65
Someone else already set the date
CISA KEV remediation due date
CISA remediation date held · without this subject the record ranks 68
Hindsight · the state
Foresight · where to check next
This record is one instance of CWE-287, improper authentication. The index holds 5176 prior instances of this class, 49 KEV-listed. The nearest of its KEV-listed records are drawn beside this. taxonomy@v1
Sources disagree here.
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Current rung: Ransomware campaign use known, 2024-07-30.
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What it is stated by the CNA
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. receipt
NVD's analysis a second authority
- severity
- 7.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- weakness
- CWE-287; CWE-305
- affected versions
- vmware cloud foundation >= 4.0 < 5.2; vmware esxi 7.0; vmware esxi 8.0; and 10 more, listed in full below
- also scored by
- security@vmware.com 6.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The CNA scored it 6.8 and NVD 7.2. Both are shown because both were published; we do not pick one.
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Dated events
Movement the material steps
This score more than doubled inside 72 hours. Both observations are in the full history below.
Show all 67 observations
67 observations held. A highlighted step crossed a promotion threshold. A step marked with a scoring model moved because the instrument was replaced, not because the vulnerability changed. receipt
The full biography
Listed by CISA 35 days after it published, exploit probability more than doubled between 2024-08-01 and 2024-08-03 (0.00306 → 0.0122) and the record had been public for 2 years, 2 months when this index was last written.
The pattern, elsewhere
This record is one instance of CWE-287, improper authentication. The index holds 5176 prior instances of this class, 49 KEV-listed. The nearest of its KEV-listed records are drawn beside this. cwe-consequences@4.20
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5176 records in this class held. The six above are drawn from the ones CISA has listed as exploited, ranked by how much of the record matches this one. That is why every one of them is KEV-listed: the pool is, so the colour on those spokes says nothing the pool has not already said.
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Records related to this one
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Fixed with these, by one advisory
advisory published by support.broadcom.com
Of the 3 records in this advisory that state one, this holds the highest EPSS percentile: 0.97887.
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