Description (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.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / VMware ESXi | affected 8.0 before ESXi80U3-24022510; affected 7.0 |
| n/a / VMware Cloud Foundation | affected 5.x; affected 4.x |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
ADP enrichment
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