CVE-ID

CVE-1999-0585
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Description
A Windows NT administrator account has the default name of Administrator.
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Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
19990607 Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Proposed (19990721)
Votes (Legacy)
ACCEPT(1) Ozancin
MODIFY(1) Frech
REJECT(3) Baker, Northcutt, Shostack
REVIEWING(1) Wall
Comments (Legacy) 
 Wall> Some sources say this is not a vulnerability, but a warning.  It just
   slows down the search for the admin account (SID = 500) which can
   always be found.
 Northcutt> I change this on all NT systems I am responsible for, but is
   root a vulnerability?
 Baker> There are ways to identify the administrator account anyway, so this
   is only a minor delay to someone that is knowledgeable.  This, in and
   of itself, doesn't really strike me as a vulnerability, anymore than
   the root account on a Unix box.
 Shostack> (there is no way to hide the account name today)
 Frech> XF:nt-adminexists
Proposed (Legacy)
19990721
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