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Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • 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
  • 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
  • DTOO131 - Trust Bar Notifications

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

    If an application is configured to require all add-ins be signed by a trusted publisher, any unsigned add-ins the application loads will be disabled and the application will display the Trust Bar a...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO210 - Block opening of pre-release versions

    Group
  • Pre-release versions of file formats new to Office Products must be blocked.

    The Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Excel 2010 File Formats installed can open Office Open XML files saved with pre-release versions of Excel 2010. Excel Open XML files usually have the fol...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO133-Disable all trusted locations

    Group
  • All automatic loading from Trusted Locations must be disabled.

    Trusted locations specified in the Trust Center are used to define file locations assumed to be safe. Content, code, and add-ins are allowed to load from trusted locations with a minimal amount of ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO142 - Force Scan Encr. Macros in open XML

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

    When an Office Open XML document (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) is rights-managed, or password-protected, any macros embedded in the document are encrypted along with the rest of the contents. By d...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO134 - Trusted locations on computer

    Group
  • Disallowance of Trusted Locations on the network must be enforced.

    Files located in Trusted Locations and specified in the Trust Center are assumed to be safe. Content, code, and add-ins are allowed to load from Trusted Locations with minimal security and without ...
    Rule Medium Severity

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