Details

When Repair Installation is disabled the user does not have the option (Help Menu) or ability to repair an Adobe Acrobat Pro XI install. Ability to repair includes the risk that established security settings could be overwritten.

Solution

Verify the following registry configuration:

Registry Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Registry Path: SOFTWAREWow6432NodeAdobeAdobe Acrobat11.0Installer

Value Name: DisableMaintenance
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://iasecontent.disa.mil/stigs/zip/U_Adobe_Acrobat_Pro_XI_V1R2_STIG.zip

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Configuration Management.This control applies to the following type of system Windows.

References

• 800-53|CM-7a.
• CAT|III
• CCI|CCI-000381
• Rule-ID|SV-89995r1_rule
• STIG-ID|ADBP-XI-001295
• Vuln-ID|V-75315

Source

• Tenable.com/audits