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III - Administrative Public

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • DTOO111 - Enable IE Bind to Object

    Group
  • Enabling IE Bind to Object functionality must be present.

    Internet Explorer performs a number of safety checks before initializing an ActiveX control. It will not initialize a control if the kill bit for the control is set in the registry, or if the secur...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO117 - Saved from URL

    Group
  • Saved from URL mark to assure Internet zone processing must be enforced.

    Typically, when Internet Explorer loads a Web page from a Universal Naming Convention (UNC) share that contains a Mark of the Web (MOTW) comment, indicating the page was saved from a site on the In...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO123-Block Navigation to URL from Office

    Group
  • Navigation to URL's embedded in Office products must be blocked.

    To protect users from attacks, Internet Explorer usually does not attempt to load malformed URLs. This functionality can be controlled separately for instances of Internet Explorer spawned by Offic...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO129 - Block Pop-Ups

    Group
  • Links that invoke instances of IE from within an Office product must be blocked.

    The Pop-up Blocker feature in Internet Explorer can be used to block most unwanted pop-up and pop-under windows from appearing. This functionality can be controlled separately for instances of Inte...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO126 - Add-on Management

    Group
  • Add-on Management functionality must be allowed.

    Internet Explorer add-ons are pieces of code, run in Internet Explorer, to provide additional functionality. Rogue add-ons may contain viruses or other malicious code. Disabling or not configuring ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO209 - Zone Elevation Protection

    Group
  • Protection from zone elevation must be enforced.

    Internet Explorer places restrictions on each web page users can use the browser to open. Web pages on a user's local computer have the fewest security restrictions and reside in the Local Machine ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO211 - Restrict ActiveX Install

    Group
  • ActiveX Installs must be configured for proper restriction.

    Microsoft ActiveX controls allow unmanaged, unprotected code to run on the user computers. ActiveX controls do not run within a protected container in the browser like the other types of HTML or Mi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO132 - Restrict File Download

    Group
  • File Downloads must be configured for proper restrictions.

    Disabling this setting allows websites to present file download prompts via code without the user specifically initiating the download. User preferences may also allow the download to occur withou...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO124 - Scripted Window Security

    Group
  • Scripted Window Security must be enforced.

    Malicious websites often try to confuse or trick users into giving a site permission to perform an action allowing the site to take control of the users' computers in some manner. Disabling or not ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO128 - Data Execution Prevention

    Group
  • Data Execution Prevention must be enforced.

    Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is a set of hardware and software technologies performing additional checks on memory to help prevent malicious code from running on a system. The primary benefit of...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO104 - Disable user name and password

    Group
  • 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

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