Upload of document templates to Office Online must be prevented.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-17767	DTOO178 - Office System	SV-33477r1_rule	ECSC-1	Medium

Description
Office users can share Excel, PowerPoint, and Word templates they create with other Microsoft Office users around the world by uploading them to the community area of the Microsoft Office Online Web site. If your organization has policies that govern the use of external resources such as Office Online, allowing users to upload templates might enable them to violate those policies.

STIG	Date
Microsoft Office System 2010	2014-01-07

Details

Check Text ( C-33960r1_chk )
The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2010 -> Tools \ Options \ General \ Web Options... “Prevent users from uploading document templates to the Office.com Community” must be set to “Enabled”. Procedure: Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following key: HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\14.0\common\internet Criteria: If the value DisableCustomerSubmittedUpload is REG_DWORD = 1, this is not a finding.

Check Text ( C-33960r1_chk )

The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2010 -> Tools \ Options \ General \ Web Options... “Prevent users from uploading document templates to the Office.com Community” must be set to “Enabled”.

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

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

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

Fix Text (F-29649r1_fix)
Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2010 -> Tools \ Options \ General \ Web Options... “Prevent users from uploading document templates to the Office.com Community” to “Enabled”.