Microsoft Word 2010 STIG
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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Scripted Window Security must be enforced.
<VulnDiscussion>Malicious websites often try to confuse or trick users into giving a site permission to perform an action allowing the site t...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO127 - Add-ins are signed by Trusted Publisher
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Application add-ins must be signed by Trusted Publisher.
<VulnDiscussion>Office 2010 applications do not check the digital signature on application add-ins before opening them. Disabling or not con...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO128 - Data Execution Prevention
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Data Execution Prevention must be enforced.
<VulnDiscussion>Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is a set of hardware and software technologies performing additional checks on memory to help...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO119 - Turn off file validation
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Configuration for file validation must be enforced.
<VulnDiscussion>Office Binary Documents (97-2003) are checked to see if they conform against the file format schema before they are opened. &...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO110 - Set default file block behavior
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Blocking as default file block opening behavior must be enforced.
<VulnDiscussion>Users can open, view, or edit a large number of file types in Word 2010. Some file types are safer than others, as some coul...Rule Medium Severity -
Files in unsafe locations must be opened in Protected View.
<VulnDiscussion>This policy setting determines if files located in unsafe locations will open in Protected View. If unsafe locations have not...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO292 - Set document behavior
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Document behavior if file validation fails must be set.
<VulnDiscussion>This policy key controls the behavior of how Office documents should be handled when failing File Validation. The options ava...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO293 - Turn off Protected View for attachments
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Attachments opened from Outlook must be in Protected View.
<VulnDiscussion>This policy setting allows for determining if Excel files in Outlook attachments open in Protected View. If enabling this pol...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO328 - Use online translation dictionaries
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Online translation dictionaries must be in use.
<VulnDiscussion>This setting allows you to prevent online dictionaries from being used for the translation of text through the Research pane....Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO333 - Word 2 and earlier binary documents
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Word 2 and earlier binary documents and templates must be blocked for open/save.
<VulnDiscussion>This setting allows you to determine whether users can open, view, edit, or save Word files with the format specified by the ...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO334 - Word 2000 binary documents and templates
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Word 2000 binary documents and templates must be configured to edit in protected view.
<VulnDiscussion>This setting allows you to determine whether users can open, view, edit, or save Word files with the format specified by the ...Rule Medium Severity
Node 2
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.