STIGUI
V-228438CAT II — Medium severitySV-228438r508021_rule

Users customizing attachment security settings must be prevented.

Rule version DTOO238 · STIG v2 · 2022-03-11

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".

Procedure: Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following key:

HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\16.0\outlook

Criteria: If the value DisallowAttachmentCustomization is 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-228438
Group title
SRG-APP-000210
Rule ID
SV-228438r508021_rule
Check ID
C-30671r497636_chk
Fix ID
F-30656r497637_fix