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Microsoft Outlook 2013 STIG

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • DTOO264 - Clear signed messages

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  • Send all signed messages as clear signed messages must be configured.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;When users sign email messages with their signing certificate and send them, Outlook uses the sender's private key to encrypt...
    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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    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 2013, the Feeds list in Internet Exp...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO223 - Trust EMail from Contacts

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    Group
  • Trust EMail from senders in receivers contact list must be enforced.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Email addresses in users' Contacts list are treated as safe senders for purposes of filtering junk email. If this configurati...
    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 email messages. If an organization has policies ...
    Rule Medium Severity

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