I - Mission Critical Classified
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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DTOO104 - Disable user name and password
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Disabling of user name and password syntax from being used in URLs must be enforced.
<VulnDiscussion>The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) standard allows user authentication to be included in URL strings in the form http://usern...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO111 - Enable IE Bind to Object
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Enabling IE Bind to Object functionality must be present.
<VulnDiscussion>Internet Explorer performs a number of safety checks before initializing an ActiveX control. It will not initialize a control...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO117 - Saved from URL
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Saved from URL mark to assure Internet zone processing must be enforced.
<VulnDiscussion>Typically, when Internet Explorer loads a Web page from a Universal Naming Convention (UNC) share that contains a Mark of the...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO123-Block Navigation to URL from Office
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Navigation to URL's embedded in Office products must be blocked.
<VulnDiscussion>To protect users from attacks, Internet Explorer usually does not attempt to load malformed URLs. This functionality can be c...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO129 - Block Pop-Ups
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Links that invoke instances of IE from within an Office product must be blocked.
<VulnDiscussion>The Pop-up Blocker feature in Internet Explorer can be used to block most unwanted pop-up and pop-under windows from appearin...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO131 - Trust Bar Notifications
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Trust Bar Notifications for unsigned application add-ins must be blocked.
<VulnDiscussion>If an application is configured to require all add-ins be signed by a trusted publisher, any unsigned add-ins the application...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO304 - VBA Macro Warning settings
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Warning Bar settings for VBA macros must be configured.
<VulnDiscussion>When users open files containing VBA Macros, applications open the files with the macros disabled and displays the Trust Bar ...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO136 - Default file format
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Default file format must be set.
<VulnDiscussion>When users create new database files, Access saves them in the new Access format. Users can change this functionality by clic...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO137 - Prompt / Convert Older Databases
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Prompts to convert older databases must be enforced.
<VulnDiscussion>When users open databases that were created in the Access 97 file format, Access 2010 prompts them to convert the database to...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO135 - Modal Trust Decision Only
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Database functionality configurations must be displayed to the user.
<VulnDiscussion>When users open an untrusted Access 2010 database that contains user-programmed executable components, Access opens the datab...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO130 - Underline hyperlinks
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Configuration for enabling of hyperlinks must be enforced.
<VulnDiscussion>Access underlines hyperlinks that appear in tables, queries, forms, and reports. If this configuration is changed, users migh...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO126 - Add-on Management
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Add-on Management functionality must be allowed.
<VulnDiscussion>Internet Explorer add-ons are pieces of code, run in Internet Explorer, to provide additional functionality. Rogue add-ons ma...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO209 - Zone Elevation Protection
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Protection from zone elevation must be enforced.
<VulnDiscussion>Internet Explorer places restrictions on each web page users can use the browser to open. Web pages on a user's local compute...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO211 - Restrict ActiveX Install
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
ActiveX Installs must be configured for proper restriction.
<VulnDiscussion>Microsoft ActiveX controls allow unmanaged, unprotected code to run on the user computers. ActiveX controls do not run within...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO132 - Restrict File Download
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
File Downloads must be configured for proper restrictions.
<VulnDiscussion>Disabling this setting allows websites to present file download prompts via code without the user specifically initiating the...Rule Medium Severity -
DTOO124 - Scripted Window Security
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
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
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
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
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
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
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