Details

Office Binary Documents (97-2003) are checked to see if they conform against the file format schema before they are opened.

Solution

Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Word 2010 -> Word Options -> Security ‘Turn off file validation’ to ‘Disabled’.

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_MS_Word_2010_V1R11_STIG.zip

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: System and Communications Protection.This control applies to the following type of system Windows.

References

• 800-53|SC-18(3)
• CAT|II
• CCI|CCI-001695
• Rule-ID|SV-33875r1_rule
• STIG-ID|DTOO119
• Vuln-ID|V-26592

Source

• Tenable.com/audits