Null Session

nounid 3397·updated May 12, 2026

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Known as Anonymous Logon, it is a way of letting an anonymous user retrieve information such as user names and shares over the network or connect without authentication. It is used by applications such as explorer.exe to enumerate shares on remote servers.

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Vulnerability0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1

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Regulated65%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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plural: Null Sessions
possessive: Null Session's
pluralpossessive: Null Sessions'

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§1: Known as Anonymous Logon, it is a way of letting an anonymous user retrieve information such as user names and shares over the network or connect without authentication. It is used by applications such as explorer.exe to enumerate shares on remote servers.

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