STIGUI
V-223353CAT II — Medium severitySV-223353r961353_rule

Outlook must be configured to prevent users overriding attachment security settings.

Rule version O365-OU-000008 · STIG v3 · 2026-02-12

Discussion

This policy setting prevents users from overriding the set of attachments blocked by Outlook.

If you enable this policy setting users will be prevented from overriding the set of attachments blocked by Outlook. Outlook also checks the "Level1Remove" registry key when this setting is specified.

If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users will be allowed to override the set of attachments blocked by Outlook.

Check

Verify the policy value for User Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Microsoft Outlook 2016 >> Security >> Prevent users from customizing attachment security settings is set to "Enabled".

Use the Windows Registry to navigate to the following key:

HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\outlook

If the value for disallowattachmentcustomization is set to REG_DWORD = 1, this is not a finding.

Fix

Set the policy value for User Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Microsoft Outlook 2016 >> Security >> Prevent users from customizing attachment security settings to "Enabled".

Identifiers

Group ID
V-223353
Group title
SRG-APP-000340
Rule ID
SV-223353r961353_rule
Check ID
C-25026r442278_chk
Fix ID
F-25014r442279_fix