Details
When Information Rights Management (IRM) is used to restrict access to an Office Open XML document, any metadata associated with the document is not encrypted. This configuration could allow potentially sensitive information such as the document author and hyperlink references to be exposed to unauthorized people.
Solution
Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2010 -> Security Settings ‘Protect document metadata for rights managed Office Open XML Files’ to ‘Enabled’.
Supportive Information
The following resource is also helpful.
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-28(1)
- CAT|II
- CCI|CCI-002476
- Rule-ID|SV-33468r1_rule
- STIG-ID|DTOO187
- Vuln-ID|V-17769