| V-17187 | Medium | Trust Bar Notifications for unsigned application add-ins must be blocked. | If an application is configured to require all add-ins to be signed by a trusted publisher, any unsigned add-ins the application loads will be disabled and the application will display the Trust... |
| V-17184 | Medium | Links that invoke instances of Internet Explorer from within an Office product must be blocked in PowerPoint. | 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 | Navigation to URLs embedded in Office products must be blocked in PowerPoint. | 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... |
| V-42336 | Medium | Add-on Management functionality must be allowed in PowerPoint Viewer. | Internet Explorer add-ons are pieces of code, run in Internet Explorer, to provide additional functionality. Rogue add-ons may contain viruses or other malicious code. Disabling or not configuring... |
| V-42334 | Medium | Navigation to URLs embedded in Office products must be blocked in PowerPoint Viewer. | 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... |
| V-42335 | Medium | Scripted Window Security must be enforced in PowerPoint Viewer. | Malicious websites often try to confuse or trick users into giving a site permission to perform an action allowing the site to take control of the users' computers in some manner. Disabling or not... |
| V-17521 | Medium | The Save commands default file format must be configured. | When users create new PowerPoint files, PowerPoint 2013 saves them in the new *.pptx format. Ensure this setting is enabled to specify that all new files are created in PowerPoint 2013. If a new... |
| V-17520 | Medium | Disallowance of Trusted Locations on the network must be enforced. | Files located in Trusted Locations and specified in the Trust Center are assumed to be safe. Content, code, and add-ins are allowed to load from Trusted Locations with minimal security and without... |
| V-42330 | Medium | File Links that invoke instances of Internet Explorer from within an Office product must be blocked in PowerPoint Viewer. | 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-17522 | Medium | Trust access for VBA must be disallowed. | VSTO projects require access to the Visual Basic for Applications project system in Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, even though the projects do not use Visual Basic for Applications. Design-time... |
| V-17173 | Medium | Disabling of user name and password syntax from being used in URLs must be enforced in PowerPoint. | 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 | The Internet Explorer Bind to Object functionality must be enabled in PowerPoint. | 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 | The Saved from URL mark must be selected to enforce Internet zone processing in PowerPoint. | Typically, when Internet Explorer loads a web page from a Universal Naming Convention (UNC) share that contains a Mark of the Web (MOTW) comment, indicating the page was saved from a site on the... |
| V-17545 | Medium | Warning Bar settings for VBA macros must be configured. | When users open files containing VBA macros, applications open the files with the macros disabled and displays the Trust Bar with a warning that macros are present and have been disabled. Users... |
| V-17788 | Medium | The ability to run programs from a PowerPoint presentation must be disallowed. | Action buttons can be used to launch external programs from PowerPoint presentations. If a malicious person adds an action button to a presentation that launches a dangerous program, it could... |
| V-26592 | Medium | Configuration for file validation must be enforced. | Office File Validation helps detect and prevent a kind of exploit known as a file format attack or file fuzzing attack. File format attacks exploit the integrity of a file. They occur when someone... |
| V-17809 | Medium | Automatic download of linked images must be disallowed. | When users insert images into PowerPoint presentations, they can select Link to File instead of Insert. If they do so, the image is represented by a link to a file on disk instead of being... |
| V-17752 | Medium | Hidden markup options must be visible. | PowerPoint presentations that are saved in standard or HTML format can contain a flag indicating whether markup (comments or ink annotations) in the presentation should be visible when the... |
| V-42332 | Medium | The Internet Explorer Bind to Object functionality must be enabled in PowerPoint Viewer. | 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-72839 | Medium | Macros must be blocked from running in Office 2013 files from the Internet. | This policy setting allows you to block macros from running in Office files that come from the Internet. If you enable this policy setting, macros are blocked from running, even if "Enable all... |
| V-26639 | Medium | The configuration for Slide Update with counterparts must be disallowed. | This setting controls whether users can link slides in a presentation with their counterparts in a PowerPoint Slide Library. If this policy setting is enabled, PowerPoint cannot check the status... |
| V-42333 | Medium | The Saved from URL mark must be selected to enforce Internet zone processing in PowerPoint Viewer. | Typically, when Internet Explorer loads a web page from a Universal Naming Convention (UNC) share that contains a Mark of the Web (MOTW) comment, indicating the page was saved from a site on the... |
| V-17322 | Medium | The opening of pre-release versions of file formats new to PowerPoint 2013 through the Compatibility Pack for Office 2013 and PowerPoint 2013 Converter must be blocked. | Versions of file formats from pre-release versions of Office applications may introduce bugs found in those pre-release versions of the applications which have been subsequently fixed in the final... |
| V-26612 | Medium | Blocking as default file block opening behavior must be enforced. | Users can open, view, or edit a large number of file types in PowerPoint 2013. Some file types are safer than others, as some could allow malicious code to become active on user computers or the... |
| V-42331 | Medium | File Downloads must be configured for proper restrictions in PowerPoint Viewer. | Disabling this setting allows websites to present file download prompts via code without the user specifically initiating the download. User preferences may also allow the download to occur... |
| V-26617 | Medium | Attachments opened from Outlook must be in Protected View. | This policy setting allows for determining if PowerPoint files in Outlook attachments open in Protected View. If enabling this policy setting, Outlook attachments do not open in Protected View. If... |
| V-26616 | Medium | Document behavior if file validation fails must be set. | This policy key controls the behavior of how Office documents should be handled when failing file validation. By requiring such documents to be opened in Protected View, any potentially malicious... |
| V-26615 | Medium | Files in unsafe locations must be opened in Protected View.
| This policy setting determines if files located in unsafe locations will open in Protected View. If unsafe locations have not been specified, only the "Downloaded Program Files" and "Temporary... |
| V-26614 | Medium | Files from the Internet zone must be opened in Protected View. | This policy setting allows for determining if files downloaded from the Internet zone open in Protected View. If enabling this policy setting, files downloaded from the Internet zone do not open... |
| V-42329 | Medium | Protection from zone elevation must be enforced in PowerPoint Viewer. | Internet Explorer places restrictions on each web page users can use the browser to open. Web pages on a user's local computer have the fewest security restrictions and reside in the Local Machine... |
| V-42328 | Medium | ActiveX Installs must be configured for proper restriction in PowerPoint Viewer. | Microsoft ActiveX controls allow unmanaged, unprotected code to run on the user computers. ActiveX controls do not run within a protected container in the browser like the other types of HTML or... |
| V-26589 | Medium | Add-ins to Office applications must be signed by a Trusted Publisher. | Office 2013 applications do not check the digital signature on application add-ins before opening them. Disabling or not configuring this setting may allow an application to load a dangerous... |
| V-26588 | Medium | Scripted Window Security must be enforced in PowerPoint. | Malicious websites often try to confuse or trick users into giving a site permission to perform an action allowing the site to take control of the users' computers in some manner. Disabling or not... |
| V-17473 | Medium | Enforce encrypted macros to be scanned in open XML documents must be determined and configured. | When an Office Open XML document (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) is rights-managed, or password-protected, any macros embedded in the document are encrypted along with the rest of the contents. By... |
| V-26585 | Medium | Protection from zone elevation must be enforced in PowerPoint. | Internet Explorer places restrictions on each web page users can use the browser to open. Web pages on a user's local computer have the fewest security restrictions and reside in the Local Machine... |
| V-17471 | Medium | All automatic loading from Trusted Locations must be disabled. | Trusted locations specified in the Trust Center are used to define file locations assumed to be safe. Content, code, and add-ins are allowed to load from trusted locations with a minimal amount of... |
| V-26587 | Medium | File Downloads must be configured for proper restrictions in PowerPoint. | Disabling this setting allows websites to present file download prompts via code without the user specifically initiating the download. User preferences may also allow the download to occur... |
| V-26586 | Medium | ActiveX Installs must be configured for proper restriction in PowerPoint. | Microsoft ActiveX controls allow unmanaged, unprotected code to run on the user computers. ActiveX controls do not run within a protected container in the browser like the other types of HTML or... |
| V-42327 | Medium | Disabling of user name and password syntax from being used in URLs must be enforced in PowerPoint Viewer. | 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-26584 | Medium | Add-on Management functionality must be allowed in PowerPoint. | Internet Explorer add-ons are pieces of code, run in Internet Explorer, to provide additional functionality. Rogue add-ons may contain viruses or other malicious code. Disabling or not configuring... |
