DTOO150 - The Update of automatic links setting must be configured to prompt user before allowing links to be updated.

Information

If an Excel workbook contains links to other documents and users are not prompted to approve them, the contents of the workbook might change without the users' knowledge because the linked files have changed. This has the risk of introducing corrupt or malicious content into the document. Prompting the user to update links will allow the content to be updated only with the user's knowledge.

Solution

Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Excel 2013 -> Excel options -> Advanced -> 'Ask to update automatic links' to 'Enabled'.

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_MS_Excel_2013_V1R8_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: SYSTEM AND INFORMATION INTEGRITY

References: 800-53|SI-3c.2., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001243, Rule-ID|SV-242364r961197_rule, STIG-ID|DTOO150, STIG-Legacy|SV-53815, STIG-Legacy|V-17732, Vuln-ID|V-242364

Plugin: Windows

Control ID: 6246f504ed358b44075c07f5db87b55e8a2d689bae9176e747b7bd25a2d6bcef