Document Information panel Beaconing must show UI.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-17605	DTOO207	SV-52754r2_rule		Medium

Description
This policy setting controls whether users see a security warning when they open custom Document Information Panels that contain a web beaconing threat. Web beacons can be used to contact an external server when users open forms. Information could be gathered by the form, or information entered by users could be sent to an external server, exposing the internal users and systems to additional attacks.

Description

This policy setting controls whether users see a security warning when they open custom Document Information Panels that contain a web beaconing threat. Web beacons can be used to contact an external server when users open forms. Information could be gathered by the form, or information entered by users could be sent to an external server, exposing the internal users and systems to additional attacks.

STIG	Date
Microsoft Office System 2013 STIG	2017-01-04

Details

Check Text ( C-47083r3_chk )
Verify the policy value for User Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Microsoft Office 2013 >> Document Information Panel "Document Information Panel Beaconing UI" is set to "Enabled (Always show UI)". Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following hive: HKEY_Users For every users profile hive under HKEY_Users, navigate to the following key: \Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\15.0\common\documentinformationpanel If the value “Beaconing” is REG_DWORD = 1 for every user profile hive, this is not a finding.

Check Text ( C-47083r3_chk )

Verify the policy value for User Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Microsoft Office 2013 >> Document Information Panel "Document Information Panel Beaconing UI" is set to "Enabled (Always show UI)".

Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following hive:
HKEY_Users

For every users profile hive under HKEY_Users, navigate to the following key:
\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\15.0\common\documentinformationpanel

If the value “Beaconing” is REG_DWORD = 1 for every user profile hive, this is not a finding.

Fix Text (F-45680r1_fix)
Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2013 -> Document Information Panel "Document Information Panel Beaconing UI" to "Enabled (Always show UI)".