Changing permissions on rights managed content for users must be enforced.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-17765	DTOO199 - Office System	SV-33462r1_rule	ECSC-1	Medium

Description
This setting controls whether Office 2010 users can change permissions for content that is protected with Information Rights Management (IRM). The Information Rights Management feature of Office 2010 allows individuals and administrators to specify access permissions to Word documents, Excel workbooks, PowerPoint presentations, InfoPath templates and forms, and Outlook e-mail messages. This functionality helps prevent sensitive information from being printed, forwarded, or copied by unauthorized people.

Description

This setting controls whether Office 2010 users can change permissions for content that is protected with Information Rights Management (IRM). The Information Rights Management feature of Office 2010 allows individuals and administrators to specify access permissions to Word documents, Excel workbooks, PowerPoint presentations, InfoPath templates and forms, and Outlook e-mail messages. This functionality helps prevent sensitive information from being printed, forwarded, or copied by unauthorized people.

STIG	Date
Microsoft Office System 2010	2012-06-22

Details

Check Text ( C-33945r1_chk )
The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2010 -> Manage Restricted Permissions “Prevent users from changing permissions on rights managed content” must be set to “Disabled”. Procedure: Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following key: HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\14.0\common\drm Criteria: If the value DisableCreation is REG_DWORD = 0, this is not a finding.

Check Text ( C-33945r1_chk )

The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2010 -> Manage Restricted Permissions “Prevent users from changing permissions on rights managed content” must be set to “Disabled”.

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

HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\14.0\common\drm

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

Fix Text (F-29634r1_fix)
Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2010 -> Manage Restricted Permissions “Prevent users from changing permissions on rights managed content” to “Disabled”.