Details

Enabling this setting allows a user to open fatally corrupt Publisher 2013 files. As a result, malicious code or users could become active on the user’s computer or the network. For example, a malicious user may purposely corrupt a Publisher file. The corrupted file could force the application to fail or execute malicious code, giving the malicious user control of Publisher 2013.

Solution

Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Publisher 2013 -> Security ‘Prompt to allow fatally corrupt files to open instead of blocking them’ to ‘Disabled’.

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://iasecontent.disa.mil/stigs/zip/U_MS_Publisher_2013_V1R5_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(1)
• CAT|II
• CCI|CCI-001662
• Rule-ID|SV-53255r1_rule
• STIG-ID|DTOO322
• Vuln-ID|V-26707

Source

• Tenable.com/audits