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Guest belongs to a group

Article ID: 10907
Last updated: 27 Jan, 2009
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Posted: 22 Jan, 2009
by: Tech Pubs S.
Updated: 27 Jan, 2009
by: Tech Pubs S.

Guest belongs to a group

This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2007 Tenable Network Security

FamilyWindows : User management
Plugin ID10907
Bugtraq ID
CVE ID

Description:

Synopsis :

The Guest account has excessive privileges.

Description :

Using the supplied credentials it was possible to determine that the
guest user belongs to groups other than guest users or domain guests.
Guest users should not have any privileges so you should fix this.

Solution :

Edit local or domain policy to restrict the guest account.

Risk factor :

High / CVSS Base Score : 7.5
(CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
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