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Microsoft Excel 2013 STIG

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • DTOO119 - Turn off file validation

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  • Configuration for file validation must be enforced.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Office File Validation helps detect and prevent a kind of exploit known as a file format attack or file fuzzing attack. File ...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • DTOO122 - dBase III / IV files

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  • Open/Save actions for dBase III / IV files must be blocked.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This setting specifies whether users can open, view, edit, or save files saved in the specified format. Enabling block of the...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • DTOO112 - Dif and Sylk files

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  • Open/Save actions for Dif and Sylk files must be blocked.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This setting specifies whether users can open, view, edit, or save files saved in the specified format. Enabling block of the...
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  • DTOO113 - Macrosheets and add-in files

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  • Open/Save actions for Excel 2 macrosheets and add-in files must be blocked.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This setting specifies whether users can open, view, edit, or save files saved in the specified format. Enabling block of the...
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  • DTOO114 - Excel 2 worksheets

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  • Open/Save actions for Excel 2 worksheets must be blocked.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This setting specifies whether users can open, view, edit, or save files saved in the specified format. Enabling block of the...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • DTOO115 - Excel 3 macrosheets and add-in files

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  • Open/Save actions for Excel 3 macrosheets and add-in files must be blocked.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This setting specifies whether users can open, view, edit, or save files saved in the specified format. Enabling block of the...
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  • DTOO116 - Excel 3 worksheets

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  • Open/Save actions for Excel 3 worksheets must be blocked.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This setting specifies whether users can open, view, edit, or save files saved in the specified format. Enabling block of the...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • DTOO105 - Excel 4 macrosheets and add-in files

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  • Open/Save actions for Excel 4 macrosheets and add-in files must be blocked.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This setting specifies whether users can open, view, edit, or save files saved in the specified format. Enabling block of the...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • DTOO106 - Excel 4 workbooks

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  • Open/Save actions for Excel 4 workbooks must be blocked.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This setting specifies whether users can open, view, edit, or save files saved in the specified format. Enabling block of the...
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  • DTOO107 - Excel 4 worksheets

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  • Open/Save actions for Excel 4 worksheets must be blocked.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This setting specifies whether users can open, view, edit, or save files saved in the specified format. Enabling block of the...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • DTOO108 - Excel 95 workbooks

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  • Actions for Excel 95 workbooks must be configured to edit in Protected View.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This setting specifies whether users can open, view, edit, or save files saved in the specified format. Enabling block of the...
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  • DTOO109 - Excel 95-97 workbooks and templates

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  • Actions for Excel 95-97 workbooks and templates must be configured to edit in Protected View.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This setting specifies whether users can open, view, edit, or save files saved in the specified format. Enabling block of the...
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  • DTOO110 - Set default file block behavior

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  • Blocking as default file block opening behavior must be enforced.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Users can open, view, or edit a large number of file types in Office 2013. Some file types are safer than others, as some co...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • DTOO120 -Web pages and Excel 2003 XML spreadsheets

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  • Open/Save actions for web pages and Excel 2003 XML spreadsheets must be blocked.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This policy setting allows for determining whether users can open, view, edit, or save Excel files with the format specified ...
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  • DTOO121 - Files from the Internet zone

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  • Files from the Internet zone must be opened in Protected View.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This policy setting allows for determining if files downloaded from the Internet zone open in Protected View. If enabling thi...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • DTOO288 - Files in unsafe locations

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  • Files in unsafe locations must be opened in Protected View.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This policy setting determines whether files located in unsafe locations will open in Protected View. If unsafe locations hav...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • DTOO292 - Set document behavior

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  • Document behavior if file validation fails must be set.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This policy key controls how Office documents should be handled when failing file validation. By requiring such documents to ...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • DTOO293 - Turn off Protected View for attachments

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  • Excel attachments opened from Outlook must be in Protected View.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This policy setting allows for determining whether Excel files in Outlook attachments open in Protected View. If enabling thi...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • DTOO418 - Disable WEBSERVICE functions

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  • WEBSERVICE functions must be disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The WEBSERVICE function option, when used in an Excel spreadsheet, returns data from a web service on the Internet or Intrane...
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  • DTOO419 - Disallow corrupt workbook options

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  • Corrupt workbook options must be disallowed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This setting controls whether Excel presents users with a list of data extraction options before beginning an Open and Repair...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • DTOO600 - Macros must be blocked from running in Office 2013 files from the Internet.

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  • Macros must be blocked from running in Office 2013 files from the Internet.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This policy setting allows you to block macros from running in Office files that come from the Internet. If you enable this p...
    Rule Medium Severity
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The content of the drawer really is up to you. It could have form fields, definition lists, text lists, labels, charts, progress bars, etc. Spacing recommendation is 24px margins. You can put tabs in here, and can also make the drawer scrollable.

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