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III - Administrative Sensitive

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-APP-000210

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  • Disabling of user name and password syntax from being used in URLs must be enforced.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) standard allows user authentication to be included in URL strings in the form http://usern...
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  • SRG-APP-000207

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  • Blocking as default file block opening behavior must be enforced.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This policy setting allows you to determine if users can open, view, or edit Word files. If you enable this policy setting, y...
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  • SRG-APP-000112

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  • The Internet Explorer Bind to Object functionality must be enabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Internet Explorer performs a number of safety checks before initializing an ActiveX control. It will not initialize a control...
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  • SRG-APP-000210

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

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Typically, when Internet Explorer loads a web page from a Universal Naming Convention (UNC) share that contains a Mark of the...
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  • SRG-APP-000112

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  • Configuration for file validation must be enforced.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This policy setting allows you to turn off the file validation feature. If you enable this policy setting, file validation wi...
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  • SRG-APP-000207

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  • Files from the Internet zone must be opened in Protected View.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This policy setting allows for determining if files downloaded from the Internet zone open in Protected View. If enabling thi...
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  • SRG-APP-000210

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  • Navigation to URLs embedded in Office products must be blocked.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To protect users from attacks, Internet Explorer usually does not attempt to load malformed URLs. This functionality can be c...
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  • SRG-APP-000112

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  • Scripted Window Security must be enforced.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Malicious websites often try to confuse or trick users into giving a site permission to perform an action allowing the site t...
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  • SRG-APP-000207

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  • Add-on Management functionality must be allowed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Internet Explorer add-ons are pieces of code, run in Internet Explorer, to provide additional functionality. Rogue add-ons ma...
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  • SRG-APP-000131

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  • Add-ins to Office applications must be signed by a Trusted Publisher.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This policy setting controls whether add-ins for this applications must be digitally signed by a trusted publisher. If you en...
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  • SRG-APP-000207

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  • Links that invoke instances of Internet Explorer from within an Office product must be blocked.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The Pop-up Blocker feature in Internet Explorer can be used to block most unwanted pop-up and pop-under windows from appearin...
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  • SRG-APP-000131

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  • Trust Bar Notifications for unsigned application add-ins must be blocked.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This policy setting controls whether the specified Office application notifies users when unsigned application add-ins are lo...
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  • SRG-APP-000209

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  • File Downloads must be configured for proper restrictions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Disabling this setting allows websites to present file download prompts via code without the user specifically initiating the...
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  • SRG-APP-000210

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  • All automatic loading from trusted locations must be disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This policy setting allows administrators to disable all trusted locations in the specified applications. Trusted locations s...
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  • SRG-APP-000210

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  • Disallowance of trusted locations on the network must be enforced.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This policy setting controls whether trusted locations on the network can be used. If you enable this policy setting, users c...
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  • SRG-APP-000141

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  • The Save commands default file format must be configured.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This policy setting determines the default file format for saving files in Word. If you enable this policy setting, you can s...
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  • SRG-APP-000210

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  • Force encrypted macros to be scanned in open XML documents must be determined and configured.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This policy setting controls whether encrypted macros in Open XML documents be are required to be scanned with anti-virus sof...
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  • SRG-APP-000141

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  • Trust access for VBA must be disallowed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This policy setting controls whether automation clients such as Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Microsoft Office (VSTO...
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  • SRG-APP-000112

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  • Protection from zone elevation must be enforced.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Internet Explorer places restrictions on each web page users can use the browser to open. Web pages on a user's local compute...
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  • SRG-APP-000488

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  • ActiveX Installs must be configured for proper restriction.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Microsoft ActiveX controls allow unmanaged, unprotected code to run on the user computers. ActiveX controls do not run within...
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  • SRG-APP-000210

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  • Files in unsafe locations must be opened in Protected View.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This policy setting determines whether files located in unsafe locations will open in Protected View. If unsafe locations hav...
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  • SRG-APP-000210

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  • Document behavior if file validation fails must be set.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This policy setting controls how Office handles documents when they fail file validation. If you enable this policy setting, ...
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  • SRG-APP-000210

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  • Attachments opened from Outlook must be in Protected View.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This policy setting allows for determining whether Word files in Outlook attachments open in Protected View. If enabling this...
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  • SRG-APP-000210

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  • The automatically update links feature must be disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;When users open documents Word automatically updates any links to external content, such as graphics, Excel worksheets, and P...
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  • SRG-APP-000141

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  • Warning Bar settings for VBA macros must be configured.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This policy setting controls how the specified applications warn users when Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros are pr...
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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.

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