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CVE-2024-37085 is an authentication bypass vulnerability in VMware ESXi affecting hosts that are joined to Active Directory for user management. ESXi grants administrative privileges based on membership in a designated Active Directory group used for ESXi administration. An attacker with sufficient permissions in Active Directory can exploit this behavior by creating, recreating, or renaming a domain group to the expected ESXi administrative group name and then adding an attacker-controlled account to that group. ESXi will then treat that account as an administrator on the host without normal authorization checks. Public reporting describes the issue in the context of the default administrative group name used by ESXi AD integration, with some reporting noting inconsistent group naming across vendor and third-party descriptions, but the core flaw is the trust placed in the presence of the configured AD group rather than robust validation of its legitimacy.
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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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