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CVE-2024-37085 — Vmware Cloud Foundation

CISA KEVRansomware
CVSS v3.1 6.8 (MEDIUM) · EPSS 75.6% (higher than 98.9% of all scored CVEs) · Priority 10/10 · Published 2024-06-25

As of 2025-10-21, CVE-2024-37085 is a MEDIUM-severity vulnerability in Vmware Cloud Foundation, CVSS v3.1 6.8, EPSS 75.6% (98.9th percentile). It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2024-07-30), with a US federal remediation deadline of 2024-08-20, and CISA links it to known ransomware campaigns. Threadlinqs Intelligence links 2 tracked threat campaigns to CVE-2024-37085, most recently “The Gentlemen RaaS overtakes Qilin as #1 ransomware operation, wields GentleKiller EDR-killer framework (400+ processes, 8 BYOVD variants) and 90% affiliate payouts”.

Last updated: 2025-10-21

What is CVE-2024-37085?

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.

The record classifies CVE-2024-37085 under weakness classes CWE-287, CWE-305. Its CVSS v3 base vector states that the flaw is reachable remotely over the network, needs high-privilege credentials, needs a user to take an action first, and has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability. 2 affected-product entries are recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 810 days ago.

Severity and exploitation probability

CVSS v3.1 base score
6.8 — MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS (FIRST)
75.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98.9% of all scored CVEs
CISA KEV
Listed since 2024-07-30, federal remediation deadline 2024-08-20 — used in known ransomware campaigns
Threadlinqs priority
10/10 — CISA lists it as used in ransomware, which Threadlinqs scores at the maximum
Published
2024-06-25, last modified 2025-10-21

Is CVE-2024-37085 being exploited?

CISA added CVE-2024-37085 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2024-07-30, which means the agency holds evidence of exploitation in the wild; US federal civilian agencies had to remediate it by 2024-08-20 under BOD 22-01. CISA flags the vulnerability as one used in known ransomware campaigns. It currently carries a trending score of 40 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.

Affected products and versions

How to fix CVE-2024-37085

The record marks a vendor fix as available for CVE-2024-37085. Patch reference: https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/24505. Vendor advisory: https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/24505. Because CVE-2024-37085 is KEV-listed, US federal civilian agencies were required to apply the vendor fix, or stop using the product, by 2024-08-20. Apply the vendor fix referenced above to every affected product listed in this record, then confirm the running version against the vendor advisory.

Threat activity tracking CVE-2024-37085

2 tracked threats in the Threadlinqs corpus reference CVE-2024-37085, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.

Sources

Seeded from cveorg and not yet processed by the Threadlinqs enrichment pipeline, so blank CVSS, EPSS or KEV fields above mean NOT MEASURED rather than measured-absent.

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