Disable "Open documents as Read Write when browsing" feature.

Disable "Open documents as Read Write when browsing" feature. - Office

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-17759	DTOO179 - Office	SV-18956r1_rule	ECSC-1	Medium

Description
By default, when users browse to an 2007 Office document on a Web server using Internet Explorer, the appropriate application opens the file in read-only mode. However, if the default configuration is changed, the document is opened as read/write. Users could potentially make changes to documents and resave them in situations where the Web server security is not configured to prevent such changes.

Description

By default, when users browse to an 2007 Office document on a Web server using Internet Explorer, the appropriate application opens the file in read-only mode. However, if the default configuration is changed, the document is opened as read/write. Users could potentially make changes to documents and resave them in situations where the Web server security is not configured to prevent such changes.

STIG	Date
Microsoft Office System 2007	2014-01-07

Details

Check Text ( C-19022r1_chk )
The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2007 system -> Tools \ Options \ General \ Web Options -> Files “Open Office documents as read/write while browsing” 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\Internet Criteria: If the value OpenDocumentsReadWriteWhileBrowsing is REG_DWORD = 0, this is not a finding.

Check Text ( C-19022r1_chk )

The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2007 system -> Tools \ Options \ General \ Web Options -> Files “Open Office documents as read/write while browsing” 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\Internet

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

Fix Text (F-17658r1_fix)
The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2007 system -> Tools \ Options \ General \ Web Options -> Files “Open Office documents as read/write while browsing” 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-17658r1_fix)

The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2007 system -> Tools \ Options \ General \ Web Options -> Files “Open Office documents as read/write while browsing” 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."