Summary
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.
- Vendor
- VMware
- Product
- ESXi
- Added to KEV
- Jul 30, 2024
- Remediation due
- Aug 20, 2024 (US federal deadline)
- Ransomware use
- Known
- Weakness
- CWE-305
- EPSS
- 26.8% as of Nov 12
In the news
- No Asia-Pacific article names this CVE yet.
Linked
Actors named alongside it:
none
Incidents exploiting it:
- none recorded
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