DTOO124 - PowerPoint - Scripted Window Security must be enforced.

Information

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 configuring this setting allows unknown websites to:
-Create browser windows appearing to be from the local operating system.
-Draw active windows displaying outside of the viewable areas of the screen capturing keyboard input.
-Overlay parent windows with their own browser windows to hide important system information, choices or prompts.

Solution

Set the policy value for Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2010 (Machine) -> Security Settings -> IE Security 'Scripted Window Security Restrictions' to 'Enabled' and 'powerpnt.exe' and 'pptview.exe' are checked.

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_MS_PowerPoint_2010_V1R11_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

References: 800-53|SC-18(3), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001695, Rule-ID|SV-33804r1_rule, STIG-ID|DTOO124, Vuln-ID|V-26588

Plugin: Windows

Control ID: 2d6c587d1e0550cf44863c289ff38ec16c333b0713105106e0f20f42fb6d0032