CVE-2024-37085 Details
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.
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2024-37085
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System): EPSS predicts the likelihood that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild. A higher percentage means a greater chance of an exploit occurring. The EPSS model produces a probability score between 0 and 1 (0 and 100%).
26.77 Probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days (98th percentile)
CVSS score for CVE-2024-37085
CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System): An open framework owned and managed by FIRST.Org, Inc. that assigns a numerical score from 0 to 10 to software vulnerabilities to indicate their severity.
6.8 Medium
DVE Score by Bitsight AI
DVE scores complement traditional static scoring systems like CVSS with Bitsight AI powered real-time threat intelligence and underground cyber criminal activity so that security teams can reduce alert fatigue and focus on vulnerabilities most likely to be exploited.
Low
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CVE-2024-37085 Global Footprint

Top 10 Identified Countries

Country Observations Percentage
FR 2,059 16.43%
US 1,461 11.66%
CN 946 7.55%
DE 792 6.32%
IR 557 4.44%
RU 538 4.29%
CA 438 3.49%
VN 371 2.96%
GB 364 2.90%
IN 356 2.84%

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CVE-2024-37085 Industry Footprint

Top 10 Identified Industries

*Service provider organizations (typically Technology and Telecommunications) are disproportionally represented in the results given their upstream ownership of end-user infrastructure. See our FAQs.

Industry* Observations Percentage
Technology 4,422 72.52%
Telecommunications 1,360 22.30%
Education 131 2.15%
Media/Entertainment 52 0.85%
Consumer Goods 43 0.71%
Government/Politics 24 0.39%
Business Services 18 0.30%
Tourism/Hospitality 11 0.18%
Manufacturing 7 0.11%
Utilities 6 0.10%

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