The ability to create an online presentation programmatically must be disabled.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>Allowing online presentations to be created programmatically allows for the capability of malicious content to become imbedded in those programmatically created presentations.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-228546r508020_rule
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2013 -> Present Online -> "Restrict programmatic access for creating online presentations in PowerPoint and Word" to "Enabled".