Allow users with earlier versions of Office to read with browsers

Allow users with earlier versions of Office to read with browsers - System

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-17583	DTOO200 - Office 2007	SV-18782r1_rule	ECSC-1	Medium

Description
The Windows Rights Management Add-on for Internet Explorer provides a way for users who do not use the 2007 Office release to view, but not alter, files with restricted permissions. By default, IRM-enabled files are saved in a format that cannot be viewed by using the Windows Rights Management Add-on. If this setting is enabled, an embedded rights-managed HTML version of the content is saved with each IRM-enabled file, which can be viewed in Internet Explorer using the add-on. This configuration increases the size of rights-managed files, in some cases significantly.

Description

The Windows Rights Management Add-on for Internet Explorer provides a way for users who do not use the 2007 Office release to view, but not alter, files with restricted permissions. By default, IRM-enabled files are saved in a format that cannot be viewed by using the Windows Rights Management Add-on. If this setting is enabled, an embedded rights-managed HTML version of the content is saved with each IRM-enabled file, which can be viewed in Internet Explorer using the add-on. This configuration increases the size of rights-managed files, in some cases significantly.

STIG	Date
Microsoft Office System 2007	2014-01-07

Details

Check Text ( C-18920r1_chk )
The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2007 system -> Manage Restricted Permissions “Allow users with earlier versions of Office to read with browsers” will be set to “Disabled”. Procedure: Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following key: HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\DRM Criteria: If the value IncludeHTML is REG_DWORD = 0, this is not a finding.

Check Text ( C-18920r1_chk )

The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2007 system -> Manage Restricted Permissions “Allow users with earlier versions of Office to read with browsers” will be set to “Disabled”.

Procedure: Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following key: HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\DRM

Criteria: If the value IncludeHTML is REG_DWORD = 0, this is not a finding.

Fix Text (F-17543r1_fix)
The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2007 system -> Manage Restricted Permissions “Allow users with earlier versions of Office to read with browsers” will be set to "Disabled". "Note: Group Policy Administrative Templates are available from the www.microsoft.com download site. The MS Office 2007 System (Office12.adm) is included in the AdminTemplates.exe file. This template provides the mechanisms to incorporate Microsoft Office 2007 System policies via the Microsoft Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc)." "Note: If the Microsoft Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) is not used to incorporate the remediation to this vulnerability the Microsoft Registry Editor (regedit.exe) may be used to create the registry key and value required."

Fix Text (F-17543r1_fix)

The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2007 system -> Manage Restricted Permissions “Allow users with earlier versions of Office to read with browsers” will be set to "Disabled".

"Note: Group Policy Administrative Templates are available from the www.microsoft.com download site. The MS Office 2007 System (Office12.adm) is included in the AdminTemplates.exe file. This template provides the
mechanisms to incorporate Microsoft Office 2007 System policies via the Microsoft Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc)."

"Note: If the Microsoft Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) is not used to incorporate the remediation to this vulnerability the Microsoft Registry Editor (regedit.exe) may be used to create the registry key and value required."