Disable opening of solutions from the Internet Security Zone

Disable opening of solutions from the Internet Security Zone - InfoPath.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-17663	DTOO158 - InfoPath	SV-18822r1_rule	ECSC-1	Medium

Description
Attackers could use InfoPath 2007 solutions published to Internet Web sites to try to obtain sensitive information from users. By default, users can open InfoPath solutions that do not contain managed code from sources located in the Internet security zone as defined in the Internet Options dialog box in Internet Explorer.

STIG	Date
Microsoft InfoPath 2007	2015-10-02

Details

Check Text ( C-18934r1_chk )
The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 -> Security -> “Disable opening of solutions from the Internet security zone” will be set to “Enabled”. 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 AllowInternetSolutions is REG_DWORD = 0, this is not a finding.

Check Text ( C-18934r1_chk )

The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 -> Security -> “Disable opening of solutions from the Internet security zone” will be set to “Enabled”.

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 AllowInternetSolutions is REG_DWORD = 0, this is not a finding.

Fix Text (F-17561r1_fix)
The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 -> Security -> “Disable opening of solutions from the Internet security zone” will be set to “Enabled”.