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 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.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Attack Vector
- network
- Complexity
- low
- Privileges
- high
- User Action
- required
- Scope
- unchanged
- Confidentiality
- high
- Integrity
- high
- Availability
- high
- Weaknesses
- CWE-287CWE-305
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- VMWARE
- Published
- 6/25/2024
- Last Modified
- 10/30/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
vmware : cloud_foundationvmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxi
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