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Microsoft Outlook 2010 STIG

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Run in FIPS compliant mode must be enforced.

    <VulnDiscussion>Outlook can run in a mode that complies with Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS), a set of standards published by...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO257 - No S/Mime interop w/ external clients

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  • S/Mime interoperability with external clients for message handling must be configured.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;In some situations, administrators might wish to use an external program, such as an add-in, to handle S/MIME message decrypt...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO266 - S/Mime receipt requests

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    Group
  • Automatic sending s/Mime receipt requests must be disallowed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Incoming signed or encrypted messages might include S/MIME receipt requests. S/MIME receipts provide confirmation that messag...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO276 - Security settings for macros

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    Group
  • Always warn on untrusted macros must be enforced.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To protect users from dangerous code, the Outlook default configuration disables all macros that are not trusted, including u...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO264 - Clear signed messages

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    Group
  • All signed messages as clear signed messages must be configured.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;When users sign e-mail messages with their digital signature and send them, Outlook uses the signature's private key to encry...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO247 - Custom OOM Action Exe. Prompt

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    Group
  • Custom Outlook Object Model (OOM) action execution prompts must be configured.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Custom actions add functionality to Outlook that can be triggered as part of a rule. Among other possible features, custom ac...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO265 - Signature Warnings

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  • Warning about invalid signatures must be enforced.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If users open e-mail messages that include invalid digital signatures, Outlook displays a warning dialog box. Users can decid...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO281 - Sync RSS Feeds w/Common List

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    Group
  • RSS feed synchronization with Common Feed List must be disallowed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The Common Feed list is a hierarchical set of RSS feeds to which clients such as Outlook 2010, the Feeds list in Internet Exp...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO223 - Trust EMail from Contacts

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    Group
  • Trust EMail from senders in receiver's contact list must be enforced.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;E-mail addresses in users' Contacts list are treated as safe senders for purposes of filtering junk e-mail. If this configura...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO282 - RSS Feeds

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  • RSS Feeds must be disallowed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Users can subscribe to RSS feeds from within Outlook and read RSS items like e-mail messages. If your organization has polici...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO231 - Unicode use when dragging Email

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    Group

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