Details
Zone Elevation The recommended state for this setting is: Enabled. (Check: groove.exe, excel.exe, mspub.exe, powerpnt.exe, pptview.exe, visio.exe, winproj.exe, outlook.exe, spDesign.exe, exprwd.exe, msaccess.exe, onent.exe, mse7.exe) Internet Explorer places restrictions on each web page that users can use the browser to open. Web pages on a user’s local computer have the fewest security restrictions and reside in the Local Machine zone, making this security zone a prime target for malicious users and code. Disabling or not configuring this setting could allow pages in the Internet zone to navigate to pages in the Local Machine zone to then run code to elevate privileges. This could allow malicious code or users to become active on user computers or the network.
Solution
To implement the recommended configuration state, set the following Group Policy setting to Enabled. Computer ConfigurationAdministrative TemplatesMicrosoft Office 2016 (Machine)Security SettingsIE SecurityProtection From Zone Elevation Impact: Websites that rely on navigation to other higher privileged sites may not properly function. To allow such websites to properly function, use Group Policy to add them to the Trusted sites zone. Note Enabling this setting also disables JavaScript navigation if no security context is present.
Supportive Information
The following resource is also helpful.
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.