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III - Administrative Public

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • DTOO104 - Disable user name and password

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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...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO111 - Enable IE Bind to Object

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  • Enabling IE Bind to Object functionality must be present.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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

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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...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO123-Block Navigation to URL from Office

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  • Navigation to URL's 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...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO129 - Block Pop-Ups

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  • Links that invoke instances of IE 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...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO131 - Trust Bar Notifications

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

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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

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  • Warning Bar settings for VBA macros must be configured.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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

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  • The Default file format must be set.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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

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  • Prompts to convert older databases must be enforced.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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

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  • Database functionality configurations must be displayed to the user.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;When users open an untrusted Access 2010 database that contains user-programmed executable components, Access opens the datab...
    Rule Medium Severity

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