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Vulnerability Assessment Details

Guest belongs to a group

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Checks the groups of guest

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Summary :

The Guest account have too much rights.

Description :

Using the supplied credentials it was possible to acertain that
the guest user belongs to groups other than guest users or domain
guests.
As guest should not have any privilege, you should fix this.

Solution :

Edit local or domain policy to restict guest account.

Network Security Threat Level:

Medium / CVSS Base Score : 4
(AV:R/AC:L/Au:NR/C:P/A:N/I:N/B:C)

Networks Security ID:

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