Details

This setting allows you to determine whether users can open, view, edit, or save Word files with the format specified by the title of this policy setting.

Solution

Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Word 2010 -> Word Options -> Security -> Trust Center -> File Block Settings ‘Word 6.0 binary documents and templates’ to ‘Enabled: Open/Save blocked, use open policy’.

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(1)
• CAT|II
• CCI|CCI-001662
• Rule-ID|SV-34097r1_rule
• STIG-ID|DTOO336
• Vuln-ID|V-26656

Source

• Tenable.com/audits