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CVE-1999-0505: Microsoft Windows SMB Guest Account User Access - Connect IT Community | Kaseya
<main> <article class="userContent"> <h3 data-id="summary"><strong>SUMMARY</strong></h3> <p>A guest user can access an SMB share</p> <h3 data-id="cve-id"><strong>CVE ID</strong></h3> <p>CVE-1999-0505</p> <h3 data-id="description"><strong>DESCRIPTION</strong></h3> <p>Microsoft Windows SMB Guest Account User Access<br><br>A Windows NT domain user or administrator account has a guessable password.<br><br>The remote host is running one of the Microsoft Windows operating systems or the SAMBA daemon. It was possible to log into it as a guest user using a random account.<br> </p> <h3 data-id="resolution"><strong>RESOLUTION</strong></h3> <p>Unitrends Risk Assessment: None. <br><br>On Unitrends only the public share allows guest access and the configuration only exposes one public /backups/samba share which is usually empty, rather than exposing all disks as would be the case for Windows servers. </p> <h3 data-id="link-to-advisories"><strong>LINK TO ADVISORIES</strong></h3> <p></p> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="/home/leaving?allowTrusted=1&target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cve.mitre.org%2Fcgi-bin%2Fcvename.cgi%3Fname%3DCVE-1999-0505">http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-1999-0505</a></li></ul> </article> </main>