RSS Feeds must be disallowed.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-17808	DTOO282 - Outlook	SV-33502r1_rule	ECSC-1	Medium

Description
Users can subscribe to RSS feeds from within Outlook and read RSS items like e-mail messages. If your organization has policies that govern the use of external resources such as RSS feeds, allowing users to subscribe to the RSS feed in Outlook might enable them to violate those policies.

STIG	Date
Microsoft Outlook 2010	2015-09-18

Details

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Fix Text (F-29674r1_fix)
================================== NOTE: If the use of RSS feeds integrated into Outlook is a mission need, and the network environment is configured with the following criteria: 1. Both the web site issuing the RSS feeds and the Outlook e-mail client must both have an available network path to each other. 2. Neither the web site issuing the RSS feeds nor the Outlook e-mail client have a network path to the public Internet. Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Outlook 2010 -> Account Settings -> RSS Feeds “Turn off RSS feature” to “Disabled”. For all environments where the Outlook e-mail clients have access to public Internet web sites, RSS integration into Outlook is not permitted, and should be configured as follows. ================================= Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Outlook 2010 -> Account Settings -> RSS Feeds “Turn off RSS feature” to “Enabled”.

Fix Text (F-29674r1_fix)

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NOTE:
If the use of RSS feeds integrated into Outlook is a mission need, and the network environment is configured with the following criteria:
1. Both the web site issuing the RSS feeds and the Outlook e-mail client must both have an available network path to each other.
2. Neither the web site issuing the RSS feeds nor the Outlook e-mail client have a network path to the public Internet.

Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Outlook 2010 -> Account Settings -> RSS Feeds “Turn off RSS feature” to “Disabled”.

For all environments where the Outlook e-mail clients have access to public Internet web sites, RSS integration into Outlook is not permitted, and should be configured as follows.
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Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Outlook 2010 -> Account Settings -> RSS Feeds “Turn off RSS feature” to “Enabled”.