{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2024-37085 in the wild since at least 30 Jul 2024, including in ransomware campaigns.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2024-37085 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available. US federal agencies must fix it by 20 Aug 2024.","what":"CVE-2024-37085 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Vmware Cloud Foundation, published on 25 Jun 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2024-37085 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-37085 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Vmware Cloud Foundation, published on 25 Jun 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2024-37085 in the wild since at least 30 Jul 2024, including in ransomware campaigns.\n\nAffected product: Vmware Cloud Foundation. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-37085/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-37085/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-37085","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-37085/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-37085","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-485m-923f-95wx"],"analysis":{"component_type":"server_software","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["privilege_escalation","code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"VMware ESXi hypervisor","requires_auth":"high_privilege","summary":"Attackers with AD permissions can regain full ESXi host access by recreating a deleted admin group, requiring prior AD 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discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.","vendorProject":"VMware","vulnerabilityName":"VMware ESXi Authentication Bypass Vulnerability"},"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"vmware:cloud_foundation","products":["vmware:cloud_foundation","vmware:esxi"],"type":"auth_bypass","year":"2024"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Denial of service in ESXi","id":"CVE-2024-37086"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"CVE-2024-37084: Remote code execution in Spring Cloud Data Flow","id":"CVE-2024-37084"},"products":["VMware Cloud Foundation","VMware ESXi"],"published":"2024-06-25","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"VMware vCenter Server Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2024-38812","kev_date_added":"2024-11-20","published":"2024-09-17"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Broadcom VMware vCenter Server Out-of-bounds Write","id":"CVE-2024-37079","kev_date_added":"2026-01-23","published":"2024-06-18"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"VMware Workspace ONE Access and Identity Manager Server-Side Template Injection","id":"CVE-2022-22954","kev_date_added":"2022-04-14","published":"2022-04-11"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"VMware vCenter Server File Upload","id":"CVE-2021-22005","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2021-09-23"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"VMware vCenter Server Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2021-21985","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2021-05-26"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"VMware Server Side Request Forgery in vRealize Operations Manager API","id":"CVE-2021-21975","kev_date_added":"2022-01-18","published":"2021-03-31"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"VMware vCenter Server Remote Code Execution","id":"CVE-2021-21972","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2021-02-24"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API 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