Control Forms Opening behavior for EMail forms containing code or scripts

Control Forms Opening behavior for EMail forms containing code or scripts - InfoPath.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-17580	DTOO167 - InfoPath	SV-18699r1_rule	ECSC-1	Medium

Description
By default, InfoPath 2007 notifies and prompts users before opening InfoPath e-mail forms that contain code or script. If this restriction is relaxed, InfoPath will open e-mail forms that contain code or script without prompting users, which could allow malicious code to run on the users' computers.

STIG	Date
Microsoft InfoPath 2007	2015-10-02

Details

Check Text ( C-18881r1_chk )
The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 -> InfoPath e-mail forms “Control behavior when opening InfoPath e-mail forms containing code or script” will be set to “Enabled (Prompt before running)”. Procedure: Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following key: HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\12.0\InfoPath\Security Criteria: If the value EMailFormsRunCodeAndScript is REG_DWORD = 1, this is not a finding.

Check Text ( C-18881r1_chk )

The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 -> InfoPath e-mail forms “Control behavior when opening InfoPath e-mail forms containing code or script” will be set to “Enabled (Prompt before running)”.

Procedure: Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following key:

HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\12.0\InfoPath\Security

Criteria: If the value EMailFormsRunCodeAndScript is REG_DWORD = 1, this is not a finding.

Fix Text (F-17499r1_fix)
The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 -> InfoPath e-mail forms “Control behavior when opening InfoPath e-mail forms containing code or script” will be set to “Enabled (Prompt before running)”.