DTOO505 - Scripted Window Security must be enforced in PowerPoint Viewer.

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 2013 (Machine) -> Security Settings -> IE Security 'Scripted Window Security Restrictions' to 'Enabled' and 'pptview.exe' is checked.

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_MS_PowerPoint_2013_V1R7_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

References: 800-53|SC-18(3), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001695, Rule-ID|SV-242778r960921_rule, STIG-ID|DTOO505, STIG-Legacy|SV-54954, STIG-Legacy|V-42335, Vuln-ID|V-242778

Plugin: Windows

Control ID: b10845cb55d372db0005ca80fd711b3806d16f8db443c82dd820e4af20f8a85b