Microsoft Publisher 2013 STIG

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Microsoft Publisher 2013 STIG

Overview

Version	Date	Finding Count (15)			Downloads
1	2018-04-04 2013-12-12 2013-12-12 2013-12-12 2015-07-24 2015-06-19 2015-07-24 2015-06-19 2015-07-24 2015-06-19 2015-07-24 2015-06-19 2015-07-24 2015-06-19 2016-10-28 2016-08-09 2016-10-28 2016-08-09 2016-08-09 2016-10-28 2016-08-09	CAT I (High): 0	CAT II (Med): 15	CAT III (Low): 0	Excel	JSON	XML

STIG Description
The Microsoft Publisher 2013 Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) is published as a tool to improve the security of Department of Defense (DoD) information systems. Comments or proposed revisions to this document should be sent via e-mail to the following address: disa.stig_spt@mail.mil.

Available Profiles

Classified	Public	Sensitive
I - Mission Critical Classified	I - Mission Critical Public	I - Mission Critical Sensitive	II - Mission Support Classified	II - Mission Support Public	II - Mission Support Sensitive	III - Administrative Classified	III - Administrative Public	III - Administrative Sensitive

Findings (MAC I - Mission Critical Public)

Finding ID	Severity	Title	Description
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.	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-26707	Medium	Fatally corrupt files must be blocked from opening.	Enabling this setting allows a user to open fatally corrupt Publisher 2013 files. As a result, malicious code or users could become active on the user's computer or the network. For example, a...
V-17173	Medium	Disabling of user name and password syntax from being used in URLs must be enforced.	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-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-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-40893	Medium	The Internet Explorer Bind to Object functionality must be enabled.	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-40895	Medium	Navigation to URLs embedded in Office products must be blocked.	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-40894	Medium	The Saved from URL mark must be selected to enforce Internet zone processing.	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-40896	Medium	Scripted Window Security must be enforced.	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' computer in some manner. Disabling or not...
V-26708	Medium	The Publisher Automation Security Level must be configured for high security.	When a separate application is used to launch Publisher 2013 programmatically, any macros can run in the programmatically-opened application without being blocked. Disabling or not configuring...
V-26587	Medium	File Downloads must be configured for proper restrictions.	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.	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-26585	Medium	Protection from zone elevation must be enforced.	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-26584	Medium	Add-on Management functionality must be allowed.	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...