| 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-17183 | 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-17811 | Medium | The automatically update links feature must be disabled. | When users open documents Word automatically updates any links to external content, such as graphics, Excel worksheets, and PowerPoint slides. To disable automatic updating, the user can click the... |
| V-17813 | Medium | A warning before printing that the document contains tracking changes must be provided. | Tracked changes or comments embedded within a document may contain sensitive, insulting, or embarrassing information that the document owner forgot, or that a contributor may have inserted. |
| 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-26625 | Medium | Word 2013 application must be prevented from loading any custom user interface (UI) code. | This policy setting controls whether Office 2013 applications load any custom user interface (UI) code included with a document or template. Office 2013 allows developers to extend the UI with... |
| 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-17521 | Medium | The Save commands default file format must be configured. | When users create new document files, Word 2013 saves them in the new Word 2013 .docx format. Ensure this setting is enabled to specify that all new files are created in Word 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 typically assumed to be safe. Content, code, and add-ins are allowed to load from Trusted Locations with minimal security... |
| 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. | 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-26648 | Medium | Online translation dictionaries must not be used. | This setting allows you to prevent online dictionaries from being used for the translation of text through the Research pane. |
| V-17174 | 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-17175 | 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-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-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-26657 | Medium | Word 95 binary documents and templates must be configured to edit in protected view. | This setting specifies whether users can open, view, edit, or save files saved in the specified format. Enabling the editing of the specified format in protected view, it mitigates zero-day... |
| V-26656 | Medium | Word 6.0 binary documents and templates must be configured for block open/save actions.
| This setting specifies whether users can open, view, edit, or save Word files saved in the specified format. Enabling block of the specified format mitigates zero-day security attacks (which are... |
| V-26654 | Medium | Word 2000 binary documents and templates must be configured to edit in protected view. | This setting specifies whether users can open, view, edit, or save files saved in the specified format. Enabling the editing of the specified format in protected view, it mitigates zero-day... |
| V-26653 | Medium | Word 2 and earlier binary documents and templates must be blocked for open/save.
| This setting specifies whether users can open, view, edit, or save Word files saved in the specified format. Enabling block of the specified format mitigates zero-day security attacks (which are... |
| 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 Office 2013. Some file types are safer than others, as some could allow malicious code to become active on user computers or the... |
| V-41147 | Medium | Word must be configured to warn when opening a document with custom XML markup. | This policy setting specifies how Word behaves when opening a document that contains custom XML markup. Versions of Word that are distributed by Microsoft after January 10, 2010 no longer read the... |
| V-26617 | Medium | Attachments opened from Outlook must be in Protected View. | This policy setting allows for determining if Word 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-26659 | Medium | Word XP binary documents and templates must be configured to edit in protected view. | This setting specifies whether users can open, view, edit, or save files saved in the specified format. Enabling the editing of the specified format in protected view, it mitigates zero-day... |
| V-26658 | Medium | Word 97 binary documents and templates must be configured to edit in protected view. | This setting specifies whether users can open, view, edit, or save files saved in the specified format. Enabling the editing of the specified format in protected view, it mitigates zero-day... |
| 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. | 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 | Force 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-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. | 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... |
