Office must be configured to not allow read with browsers.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-17583	DTOO200 - Office System	SV-33459r1_rule	ECSC-1	Medium

Description
The Windows Rights Management Add-on for Internet Explorer provides a way for users who do not use the 2010 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 2010 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 2010	2015-04-16

Details

Check Text ( None )
None

Fix Text (F-29631r1_fix)
Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2010 -> Manage Restricted Permissions “Allow users with earlier versions of Office to read with browsers” to “Disabled”.