Microsoft Outlook 2013 STIG
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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DTOO104 - Disable user name and password
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Disabling of user name and password syntax from being used in URLs must be enforced.
The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) standard allows user authentication to be included in URL strings in the form http://username:password@example.com. A malicious user might use this URL syntax to ...Rule Medium Severity -
Access restriction settings for published calendars must be configured.
Users can share their calendars with others by publishing them to the Microsoft Office Online Calendar Sharing Services and to a server that supports the World Wide Web Distributed Authoring and Ve...Rule Medium Severity -
IE Trusted Zones assumed trusted must be blocked.
Malicious users can send HTML email messages with embedded Web beacons, which are pictures and other content from external servers that can be used to track whether specific recipients open the mes...Rule Medium Severity -
The Add-In Trust Level must be configured.
Under normal circumstances the installed COM add-ins are applications that have been approved and intentionally deployed by the organization and therefore they should not pose a security threat. H...Rule Medium Severity -
Object Model Prompt behavior for programmatic access of user address data must be configured.
If an untrusted application accesses the recipient fields, the application could gain access to sensitive data and potentially change that data. This could result in mail being sent to the wrong pa...Rule Medium Severity -
Trusted add-ins behavior for email must be configured.
The Outlook object model includes entry points to access Outlook data, save data to specified locations, and send email messages, all of which can be used by malicious application developers. To he...Rule Medium Severity -
The prompt to display level 1 attachments must be disallowed when closing an item.
To protect users from viruses and other harmful files, Outlook uses two levels of security, designated Level 1 and Level 2, to restrict access to files attached to email messages or other items. Po...Rule Medium Severity -
Junk Mail UI must be configured.
The Junk E-mail Filter in Outlook is designed to intercept the most obvious junk email, or spam, and send it to users' Junk E-mail folders. The filter evaluates each incoming message based on sever...Rule Medium Severity -
External content and pictures in HTML email must be displayed.
Malicious email senders can send HTML email messages with embedded Web beacons, which are pictures and other content from external servers that can be used to track whether specific recipients open...Rule Medium Severity -
Internet calendar integration in Outlook must be disabled.
The Internet Calendar feature in Outlook enables users to publish calendars online (using the webcal:// protocol) and subscribe to calendars that others have published. When users subscribe to an I...Rule Medium Severity -
Attachments using generated name for secure temporary folders must be configured.
The Secure Temporary Files folder is used to store attachments when they are opened in email. By default, Outlook generates a random name for the Secure Temporary Files folder and saves it in the T...Rule Medium Severity -
Outlook must be enforced as the default email, calendar, and contacts program.
Outlook is made the default program for email, contacts, and calendar services when it is installed, although users can designate other programs as the default programs for these services. If anoth...Rule Medium Severity -
Plain Text Options for outbound email must be configured.
If outgoing mail is formatted in certain ways, for example, if attachments are encoded in UUENCODE format, attackers might manipulate the messages for their own purposes. If UUENCODE formatting is ...Rule Medium Severity -
Publishing to a Web Distributed and Authoring (DAV) server must be prevented.
Outlook users can share their calendars with others by publishing them to a server that supports the World Wide Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) protocol. Unlike the Microsoft Offi...Rule Medium Severity -
Level 1 file extensions must be blocked and not removed.
Malicious code is often spread through e-mail. Some viruses have the ability to send copies of themselves to other people in the victim's Address Book or Contacts list, and such potentially harmful...Rule Medium Severity -
Level 2 file extensions must be blocked and not removed.
Malicious code is often spread through email. Some viruses have the ability to send copies of themselves to other people in the victim's Address Book or Contacts list, and such potentially harmful ...Rule Medium Severity -
Level of calendar details that a user can publish must be restricted.
Outlook users can share their calendars with selected others by publishing them to the Microsoft Office Outlook Calendar Sharing Service. Users can choose from three levels of detail: * Availabilit...Rule Medium Severity -
Run in FIPS compliant mode must be enforced.
Outlook can run in a mode that complies with Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS), a set of standards published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for use by no...Rule Medium Severity -
S/Mime interoperability with external clients for message handling must be configured.
In some situations, administrators might wish to use an external program, such as an add-in, to handle S/MIME message decryption. If your organization works with encrypted messages that the decrypt...Rule Medium Severity
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