One of the security recommendation inside SQL Server Security Best Practice white paper for guest user is that, to disable guest access in every database (expect “master”, “msdb” and “tempdb”) on SQL Server instance, and it should not be used in any circumstances. By default, guest user exists in all user and system databases. Having guest user enabled inside databases, leaves a security risks of unauthorized (or unaudited) access to the data because Guest user allows database access to logins who do not have associated users inside SQL Server databases. By disabling guest user access from the user databases will ensure, that member of PUBLIC server role may not be able to access user databases on SQL Server instance, unless they have access to the database explicitly.

I have written following script which you can use to list all databases with guest user access enabled:

USE [master]
GO

SET NOCOUNT ON

DECLARE @First [smallint]
	,@Last [smallint]
	,@DBName [varchar] (200)
	,@SQLCommand [varchar] (500)
	,@DBWithGuestAccess [nvarchar] (4000)

IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#GuestUsersReport') IS NOT NULL
	DROP TABLE #GuestUsersReport

CREATE TABLE #GuestUsersReport (
	[Database] [varchar](256)
	,[UserName] [varchar](256)
	,[HasDbAccess] [varchar](10)
	)

DECLARE @DatabaseList TABLE (
	[RowNo] [smallint] identity(1, 1)
	,[DBName] [varchar](200)
	)

INSERT INTO @DatabaseList
SELECT [name]
FROM [master]..[sysdatabases] WITH (NOLOCK)
WHERE [name] NOT IN ('master', 'tempdb', 'msdb')
ORDER BY [name]

SELECT @First = MIN([RowNo])
FROM @DatabaseList

SELECT @Last = MAX([RowNo])
FROM @DatabaseList

WHILE @First <= @Last
BEGIN
	SELECT @DBName = [DBName]
	FROM @DatabaseList
	WHERE [RowNo] = @First

	SET @SQLCommand = 'INSERT INTO #GuestUsersReport ([Database], [UserName], [HasDbAccess])' + CHAR(13) + 'SELECT ' + CHAR(39) + @DBName + CHAR(39) + ' ,[name], CASE [hasdbaccess] WHEN 0 THEN ''N'' WHEN 1 THEN ''Y'' END ' + CHAR(13) + 'FROM [' + @DBName + ']..[sysusers] WHERE [name] LIKE ''guest'' AND [hasdbaccess] = 1'

	EXEC (@SQLCommand)

	SET @First = @First + 1
END

SELECT *
FROM #GuestUsersReport WITH (NOLOCK)

SET NOCOUNT OFF

IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#GuestUsersReport') IS NOT NULL
	DROP TABLE #GuestUsersReport

Well after running the above script, if you find any databases with guest access enabled, then use the REVOKE CONNECT statement to revoke the access of guess access from user database:

--Specify database name in USE statement
USE [<SpecifyDatabaseName>]
GO

REVOKE CONNECT TO [guest]
GO

This recommendation does not apply to “master”, “msdb” and “tempdb” database. For more information, see “KB #2539091 : You should not disable the guest user in the msdb database in SQL Server” and “KB #2186935 : Guidelines on revoking Guest user access in a database“.