| V-17184 | Medium | Block pop-ups for links that invoke instances of IE from within Outlook. | The Pop-up Blocker feature in Internet Explorer can be used to block most unwanted pop-up and pop-under windows from appearing. This functionality can be controlled separately for instances of... |
| V-17183 | Medium | Block navigation to URL embedded in Office products to protect against attack by malformed URL. | To protect users from attacks, Internet Explorer usually does not attempt to load malformed URLs. This functionality can be controlled separately for instances of Internet Explorer spawned by 2007... |
| V-17808 | Medium | Enable the "turn off RSS Feeds" feature in Outlook. | By default, users can subscribe to RSS feeds from within Outlook 2007 and read RSS items like e-mail messages. If your organization has policies that govern the use of external resources such as... |
| V-17575 | Medium | Configure trusted add-ins behavior for eMail. | The Outlook object model includes entry points to access Outlook data, save data to specified locations, and send e-mail messages, all of which can be used by malicious application developers. To... |
| V-17573 | Medium | Configure Object Model Prompt behavior for Meeting and Task Responses. | If an untrusted application programmatically responds to tasks or meeting requests, that application could impersonate a user response to the tasks or meeting requests with false information.
By... |
| V-17675 | Medium | Do not allow Outlook Object Model scripts to run for public folders - Outlook. | In Outlook 2007, folders can be associated with custom forms or folder home pages that include scripts that access the Outlook object model. These scripts can add functionality to the folders and... |
| V-17674 | Medium | Do not allow folders in non-default stores to be set as folder home pages - Outlook. | Outlook 2007 allows users to designate Web pages as home pages for personal or public folders. When a user clicks on a folder, Outlook displays the home page the user has assigned to it. Although... |
| V-17763 | Medium | Prevent publishing calendars to Office Online. - Outlook | By default, Outlook 2007 users can share their calendars with selected others by publishing them to the Microsoft Office Outlook Calendar Sharing Service. Users can control who can view their... |
| V-17601 | Medium | Prompting behavior when closing a Level 1 attachment in Outlook. | To protect users from viruses and other harmful files, Outlook 2007 uses two levels of security, designated Level 1 and Level 2, to restrict users' access to files attached to e-mail messages or... |
| V-17602 | Medium | Promping behavior for Level 1 attachments on Sending - Outlook. | To protect users from viruses and other harmful files, Outlook 2007 uses two levels of security, designated Level 1 and Level 2, to restrict access to files attached to e-mail messages or other... |
| V-17760 | Medium | Configure Outlook Security Mode to use Policy settings. - Outlook. | If users can configure security themselves, they might choose levels of security that leave their computers vulnerable to attack.
By default, Outlook 2007 users can configure security for... |
| V-17587 | Medium | Disable the "remember password" for internet e-mail accounts - Outlook. | As a security precaution, password caching for eMail Internet protocols such as POP3 or IMAP may lead to password discovery and evantually to data loss. |
| V-17748 | Medium | Junk email protection level for outlook | The Junk E-mail Filter in Outlook 2007 is designed to intercept the most obvious junk e-mail, or spam, and send it to users' Junk E-mail folders. The filter evaluates each incoming message based... |
| V-17585 | Medium | Configure Dial-up and Hang up Options for Outlook. | By default, users can connect to their e-mail servers using dial-up networking if their accounts are configured appropriately. Dial-up connections are often used by mobile users who need to... |
| V-17807 | Medium | Trust EMail from senders in receiver's contact list - Outlook. | By default, e-mail addresses in users' Contacts list are treated as safe senders for purposes of filtering junk e-mail. If this configuration is changed, e-mail from users' Contacts might be... |
| V-17803 | Medium | Set security feature to always warn about invalid signature - Outlook. | By default, if users open e-mail messages that include invalid digital signatures, Outlook 2007 displays a warning dialog box. Users can decide whether they want to be warned about invalid... |
| V-17734 | Medium | Require user Authentication with Exchange Server - Outlook | Exchange Server supports the Kerberos authentication protocol and NTLM for authentication. The Kerberos protocol is the more secure authentication method and is supported on Windows 2000 Server... |
| V-17733 | Medium | Attachments using generated name for secure temporary folders - Outlook. | The Secure Temporary Files folder is used to store attachments when they are opened in e-mail. By default, Outlook 2007 generates a random name for the Secure Temporary Files folder and saves it... |
| V-17572 | Medium | Configure Object Model Prompt behavior for programmatic access of user address data.
| If an untrusted application accesses the recipient fields, the application could gain access to sensitive data and potentially change that data. This could result in mail being sent to the wrong... |
| V-17615 | Medium | Enable RPC encryption between Outook and Exchange server. | By default, the remote procedure call (RPC) communication channel between an Outlook 2007 client computer and an Exchange server is not encrypted. If a malicious person is able to eavesdrop on the... |
| V-17624 | Medium | Hide Junk Mail UI configuration for Outlook. | The Junk E-mail Filter in Outlook 2007 is designed to intercept the most obvious junk e-mail, or spam, and send it to users' Junk E-mail folders. The filter evaluates each incoming message based... |
| V-17173 | Medium | Disable user name and password syntax from being used in URLs | The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) standard allows user authentication to be included in URL strings in the form http://username:password@example.com. A malicious user might use this URL syntax to... |
| V-17174 | Medium | Enable IE Bind to Object functionality for instances of IE launched from Outlook | Internet Explorer performs a number of safety checks before initializing an ActiveX control. It will not initialize a control if the kill bit for the control is set in the registry, or if the... |
| V-17175 | Medium | Evaluate Saved from URL mark when launched from OutLook | Typically, when Internet Explorer loads a Web page from a UNC share that contains a Mark of the Web (MOTW) comment that indicates the page was saved from a site on the Internet, Internet Explorer... |
| V-17778 | Medium | Configure "retrieving Certificate Revokation List" (CRL) data - Outlook | Certificate revocation lists (CRLs) are lists of digital certificates that have been revoked by their controlling certificate authorities (CAs), typically because the certificates were issued... |
| V-17546 | Medium | Access restriction settings for published calendars in Outlook. | By default, users can share their calendars with others by publishing them to the Microsoft Office Online Calendar Sharing Services and to a server that supports the World Wide Web Distributed... |
| V-17562 | Medium | Do not allow Scripts in One-Off Outlook forms. | Malicious code can be included within Outlook forms, and such code could be executed when users open the form.
By default, Outlook 2007 does not run scripts in forms in which the script and the... |
| V-17564 | Medium | Block IE Trusted Zones from being assumed 'trusted' for EMail Download purposes. | Malicious users can send HTML e-mail messages with embedded Web beacons, which are pictures and other content from external servers that can be used to track whether specific recipients open the... |
| V-17567 | Medium | Set the Object Model Prompt behavior for programmatic access of the UserProperties.Find Method | If an untrusted application accesses address information, the application could gain access to sensitive data and potentially change that data.
By default, when an untrusted application attempts... |
| V-17566 | Medium | All installed trusted COM addins can be trusted. | All installed trusted COM addins can be trusted. Because the add-ins are controlled and known by the admins, they should always be presumed trusted. |
| V-17569 | Medium | Allow Users to demote an EMail Level 1 attachment to Level 2. | Outlook 2007 uses two levels of security to restrict access to files attached to e-mail messages or other items. Files with specific extensions can be categorized as Level 1 (users cannot view the... |
| V-17568 | Medium | Configure Outlook Object Model Prompt behavior for programmatic address book accesses. | If an untrusted application accesses the address book, the application could gain access to sensitive data and potentially change that data.
By default, when an untrusted application attempts to... |
| V-17755 | Medium | Enable messages formats are set to use SMime - Outlook. | E-mail typically travels over open networks and is passed from server to server. Messages are therefore vulnerable to interception, and attackers might read or alter their contents. It is... |
| V-17571 | Medium | Configure Object Model Prompt behavior for the SaveAs method. | If an untrusted application uses the Save As command to programmatically save an item, the application could add malicious data to a user's inbox, a public folder, or an address book.
By default,... |
| V-17787 | Medium | Run in FIPS compliant mode - Outlook. | Outlook 2007 can run in a mode that complies with Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS), a set of standards published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for use... |
| V-17678 | Medium | Do not include Internet Calendar Integration in Outlook. | The Internet Calendar feature in Outlook 2007 enables users to publish calendars online (using the webcal:// protocol) and subscribe to calendars that others have published. When users subscribe... |
| V-17634 | Medium | Configure the "include Intranet" with Safe Zones for automatic picture downloads. | Malicious e-mail senders can send HTML e-mail messages with embedded Web beacons, which are pictures and other content from external servers that can be used to track whether recipients open the... |
| V-17613 | Medium | Enable links in Email Messages - Outlook. | Outlook 2007's Junk E-mail Filter evaluates each incoming message for possible spam or phishing content. Suspicious message detection is always turned on.
By default, Outlook handles suspicious... |
| V-17771 | Medium | Read signed email as plain text. | Outlook 2007 can display e-mail messages and other items in three formats: plain text, Rich Text Format (RTF), and HTML. By default, Outlook displays digitally signed e-mail messages in the format... |
| V-17610 | Medium | Disable download full text of articles as HTML attachments in Outlook. | Many RSS feeds use messages that contain a brief summary of a larger message or an article with a link to the full content. Users can configure Outlook 2007 to automatically download the linked... |
| V-17774 | Medium | Do not Remove file extensions blocked as level 1. | Malicious code is often spread through e-mail. Some viruses have the ability to send copies of themselves to other people in the victim's Address Book or Contacts list, and such potentially... |
| V-17775 | Medium | Do not remove file extensions blocked as level 2 - Outlook. | Malicious code is often spread through e-mail. Some viruses have the ability to send copies of themselves to other people in the victim's Address Book or Contacts list, and such potentially... |
| V-17776 | Medium | Restrict level of calendar details that a user can publish - Outlook. | By default, Outlook 2007 users can share their calendars with selected others by publishing them to the Microsoft Office Outlook Calendar Sharing Service. Users can choose from three levels of... |
| V-17777 | Medium | Restrict upload method for publishing calendars to Office Online - Outlook. | By default, when users publish their calendar to Microsoft Office Online using the Microsoft Office Outlook Calendar Sharing Service, Outlook 2007 updates the calendars online at regular intervals... |
| V-17806 | Medium | RSS feed synchronization with Common Feed List - Outlook. | The Common Feed list is a hierarchical set of RSS feeds to which clients such as Outlook 2007, the Feeds list in Internet Explorer 7, and the Feed Headlines Sidebar gadget in Windows Vista can... |
| V-17753 | Medium | Make Outlook the default email, calendar, and contacts program. | By default, Outlook 2007 is made the default program for E-mail, contacts, and calendar services when it is installed, although users can designate other programs as the default programs for these... |
| V-17802 | Medium | Set custom Outlook Object Model (OOM) action execution prompt - Outlook. | Custom actions add functionality to Outlook 2007 that can be triggered as part of a rule. Among other possible features, custom actions can be created that reply to messages in ways that... |
| V-17630 | Medium | Include the Internet with Safe Zones for Picture Download - Outlook | Malicious e-mail senders can send HTML e-mail messages with embedded Web beacons, which are pictures and other content from external servers that can be used to track whether recipients open the... |
| V-17800 | Medium | Configure to send all signed messages as clear signed messages - Outlook. | By default, when users sign e-mail messages with their digital signature and send them, Outlook 2007 uses the signature's private key to encrypt the digital signature but sends the messages as... |
| V-17944 | Medium | Disable User Entries to Server List - Outlook | If users are able to manually enter the addresses of servers that are not approved by the organization, they could use servers that do not meet your organization's information security... |
| V-17770 | Medium | Read EMail as plain text - Outlook. | Outlook 2007 can display e-mail messages and other items in three formats: plain text, Rich Text Format (RTF), and HTML. By default, Outlook displays e-mail messages in whatever format they were... |
| V-17559 | Medium | Do not allow Active X One-Off forms to be used in Outlook. | By default, third-party ActiveX controls are not allowed to run in one-off forms in Outlook. You can change this behavior so that Safe Controls (Microsoft Forms 2.0 controls and the Outlook... |
| V-17766 | Medium | Prevent users from customizing attachment security settings - Outlook | All installed trusted COM addins can be trusted. Exchange Settings for the addins still override if present and this option is selected. |
| V-17739 | Medium | Disable automatic download content for email from people in Safe Senders and Safe reciipeint lists. | Malicious e-mail senders can send HTML e-mail messages with embedded Web beacons, or pictures and other content from external servers that can be used to track whether specific recipients have... |
| V-17791 | Medium | Configure S/Mime password setting - default S/Mime password time | Key Management Server (KMS) was a product that could be integrated with certain versions of Microsoft Exchange Server prior to Exchange 2000 SP2. Users must supply a password to use certificates... |
| V-17762 | Medium | Prevent publishing to a Web Distributed and Authoring (DAV) server - Outlook. | By default, Outlook 2007 users can share their calendars with others by publishing them to a server that supports the World Wide Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) protocol. Unlike... |
| V-17671 | Medium | Disable the ability to displaly level 1 attachments in Outlook. | To protect users from viruses and other harmful files, Outlook 2007 uses two levels of security, designated Level 1 and Level 2, to restrict access to files attached to e-mail messages or other... |
| V-17558 | Medium | Disable the feature of adding recipients of sent eMail to the 'save sender's list. | Sometimes users will send e-mail messages to request that they be taken off a mailing list. If the e-mail recipient is then automatically added to the Safe Senders List, future e mail messages... |
| V-17736 | Medium | Automatically configure user profile based on Active Directory primary SMTP address - Outlook | By default, if a user is joined to a domain in an Active Directory environment and does not have an e-mail account configured, Outlook 2007 populates the e-mail address field of the New Account... |
| V-17672 | Medium | Display external content and pictures in HTML eMail - Outlook. | Malicious e-mail senders can send HTML e-mail messages with embedded Web beacons, which are pictures and other content from external servers that can be used to track whether specific recipients... |
| V-17756 | Medium | Enable the Missing Root Certificates warning - Outlook. | When Outlook 2007 accesses a certificate, it validates that it can trust the certificate by examining the root certificate of the issuing CA. If the root certificate can be trusted, then... |
| V-17761 | Medium | Disable Plain Text Options for outbound email - Outlook | If outgoing mail is formatted in certain ways, for example if attachments are encoded in UUENCODE format, attackers might manipulate the messages for their own purposes. If UUENCODE formatting is... |
| V-17677 | Medium | Do not check eMail address against address of certificates being used - Outlook | By default, when a user digitally signs a message, Outlook 2007 compares the user's e-mail address with the certificate used for signing. The user's e-mail address must appear in either the... |
| V-17676 | Medium | Do not allow Outlook Object Model scripts to run for shared folders - Outlook. | In Outlook 2007, folders can be associated with custom forms or folder home pages that include scripts that access the Outlook object model. These scripts can add functionality to the folders and... |
| V-17738 | Medium | Automatically download Internet Calendar appointment attachments. | Files attached to Internet Calendar appointments could contain malicious code that could be used to compromise a computer.
By default, Outlook 2007 does not download attachments when retrieving... |
| V-17801 | Medium | Set Control Item property prompt for data, to automatically deny. | When a control on a custom Outlook 2007 form is bound directly to any of the Address Information fields, the form code can indirectly retrieve the value of the Address Information field by... |
| V-17812 | Medium | Disable the feature that uses Unicode when dragging eMail message to file system - Outlook. | By default, when users drag e-mail messages from Outlook 2007 to a Windows Explorer window or to their Desktop, Outlook creates a .msg file using the native character encoding format for the... |
| V-17570 | Medium | Configure Object Model Prompt behavior for accessing User Property Formula. | A custom form in Outlook could be used to gain access to sensitive address book data and potentially to change that data.
By default, when a user tries to bind an address information field to a... |
| V-17798 | Medium | Create settings to Always warn on untrusted macros - Outlook. | To protect users from dangerous code, the Outlook 2007 default configuration disables all macros that are not trusted, including unsigned macros, macros with expired or invalid signatures, and... |
| V-17470 | Medium | Do not permit download of content from safe zones - Outlook | By default, Outlook 2007 automatically downloads content from sites that are considered "safe," as defined in the Security tab of the Internet Options dialog box in Internet Explorer. This... |
| V-17604 | Medium | Do not provide Continue Option on Encryption Warning dialog box - Outlook. | By default, if Outlook 2007 users see an encryption-related dialog box when attempting to send a message, they can choose to dismiss the warning and send the message anyway. If users send messages... |
| V-17574 | Medium | Configure Object Model Prompt for programmatic email send behavior. | If an untrusted application programmatically sends e-mail, that application could send mail that includes malicious code, impersonate a user, or launch a denial-of-service attack by sending a... |
| V-17795 | Medium | Enable security feature to never automatically send s/Mime receipt requests. | Incoming signed or encrypted messages might include S/MIME receipt requests. S/MIME receipts provide confirmation that messages are received unaltered, and can include information about who opened... |
| V-17792 | Medium | Enable the feature and configure the maximum S/Mime password time setting. | Key Management Server (KMS) was a product that could be integrated with certain versions of Microsoft Exchange Server prior to Exchange 2000 SP2. Users must supply a password to use certificates... |
| V-17673 | Medium | Disable the "do not allow creating, replying or forwarding of signatures' feature - Outlook | By default, Outlook 2007 users can create and use signatures in e-mail messages. Users can add signatures to messages manually, and can also configure Outlook to automatically append signatures to... |
| V-17790 | Medium | No S/Mime interoperability with external clients for message handling. | In some situations, administrators might wish to use an external program, such as an add-in, to handle S/MIME message decryption. If your organization works with encrypted messages that the... |
| V-17586 | Medium | Configure Outlook Dial-up options to Warn user before allowing switch in dial-up access. | By default, users can connect to their e-mail servers using dial-up networking if their accounts are configured appropriately. Dial-up connections are often used by mobile users who need to... |
