Microsoft Groove 2013 STIG

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Microsoft Groove 2013 STIG

Overview

Version	Date	Finding Count (10)			Downloads
1	2018-04-03 2013-12-11 2013-12-11 2014-12-23 2015-04-13 2014-12-23 2015-04-13 2014-12-23 2015-04-13 2014-12-23 2015-04-13 2014-12-23 2015-04-13 2014-12-23 2015-04-13 2014-12-23 2015-04-13 2014-12-23 2015-04-13 2014-12-23 2014-12-23	CAT I (High): 0	CAT II (Med): 10	CAT III (Low): 0	Excel	JSON	XML

STIG Description
The Microsoft Groove 2013 Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) is published as a tool to improve the security of Department of Defense (DoD) information systems. Comments or proposed revisions to this document should be sent via e-mail to the following address: disa.stig_spt@mail.mil.

Available Profiles

Classified	Public	Sensitive
I - Mission Critical Classified	I - Mission Critical Public	I - Mission Critical Sensitive	II - Mission Support Classified	II - Mission Support Public	II - Mission Support Sensitive	III - Administrative Classified	III - Administrative Public	III - Administrative Sensitive

Findings (MAC III - Administrative Sensitive)

Finding ID	Severity	Title	Description
V-40767	Medium	The Internet Explorer Bind to Object functionality must be enabled.	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...
V-40766	Medium	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...
V-40769	Medium	Navigation to URLs 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...
V-40768	Medium	The Saved from URL mark must be selected to enforce Internet zone processing.	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...
V-40770	Medium	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...
V-40771	Medium	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...
V-40772	Medium	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...
V-40773	Medium	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...
V-40774	Medium	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...
V-40775	Medium	ActiveX installs must be configured for proper restrictions.	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...