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CVE-2024-37085 is an authentication bypass vulnerability in VMware ESXi hosts configured to use Active Directory for user management. ESXi automatically grants administrative privileges to members of a designated domain group, identifying that group by name rather than security identifier. An attacker with sufficient Active Directory group-management permissions can create or rename a group to the privileged name and obtain full administrative access through an attacker-controlled member account. The original vendor description specifies re-creating a configured group after deletion, whereas Microsoft describes exploitation through creation of a previously nonexistent group. The default group name is inconsistently identified as "ESXi Admins" and "ESX Admins." Successful exploitation enables hypervisor takeover and has been used in ransomware attacks.
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An authentication bypass vulnerability in VMware ESXi referenced as an ESXi locker deployment vector.
A VMware vulnerability mentioned only as part of other CVEs bundled in the same Dell advisory.
A VMware ESXi / Active Directory authentication weakness that can grant full ESXi administrative rights to members of a specially named AD group, enabling rapid hypervisor compromise.
A named VMware ESXi Active Directory integration authentication bypass vulnerability referenced as an associated analytic story, without further detail in the content.
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Cross-references every affected SKU, including bundled OEM variants.
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