Opening behavior for Email forms containing code or scripts must be controlled.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-17580	DTOO167	SV-53362r1_rule	ECSC-1	Medium

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

STIG	Date
Microsoft InfoPath 2013 STIG	2014-01-06

Details

Check Text ( C-47622r1_chk )
The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft InfoPath 2013 -> InfoPath e-mail forms "Control behavior when opening InfoPath e-mail forms containing code or script" must be set to "Enabled (Prompt before running)". Procedure: Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following key: HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\15.0\InfoPath\security Criteria: If the value EMailFormsRunCodeAndScript is REG_DWORD = 1, this is not a finding.

Check Text ( C-47622r1_chk )

The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft InfoPath 2013 -> InfoPath e-mail forms "Control behavior when opening InfoPath e-mail forms containing code or script" must be set to "Enabled (Prompt before running)".

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

HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\15.0\InfoPath\security

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

Fix Text (F-46290r1_fix)
Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft InfoPath 2013 -> InfoPath e-mail forms "Control behavior when opening InfoPath e-mail forms containing code or script" to "Enabled (Prompt before running)".