Microsoft Access 2013 STIG

Microsoft Access 2013 STIG

Overview

Version	Date	Finding Count (17)			Downloads
1	2018-04-03 2013-12-11 2013-12-11 2013-12-11 2015-04-13 2013-12-11 2015-04-13 2013-12-11 2015-04-13 2013-12-11 2015-04-13 2013-12-11 2015-04-13 2013-12-11 2016-10-28 2016-12-20 2016-10-28 2017-03-17 2017-03-17 2016-10-28 2017-03-17	CAT I (High): 0	CAT II (Med): 15	CAT III (Low): 2	Excel	JSON	XML

STIG Description
The Microsoft Access 2013 Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) is published as a tool to improve the security of Department of Defense (DoD) information systems. Comments or proposed revisions to this document should be sent via e-mail to the following address: disa.stig_spt@mail.mil.

Available Profiles

Classified	Public	Sensitive
I - Mission Critical Classified	I - Mission Critical Public	I - Mission Critical Sensitive	II - Mission Support Classified	II - Mission Support Public	II - Mission Support Sensitive	III - Administrative Classified	III - Administrative Public	III - Administrative Sensitive

Findings (MAC II - Mission Support Sensitive)

Finding ID	Severity	Title	Description
V-17187	Medium	Trust Bar Notifications for unsigned application add-ins must be blocked.	If an application is configured to require all add-ins be signed by a trusted publisher, any unsigned add-ins the application loads will be disabled and the application will display the Trust Bar...
V-17184	Medium	Links that invoke instances of Internet Explorer from within an Office product must be blocked.	The Pop-up Blocker feature in Internet Explorer can be used to block most unwanted pop-up and pop-under windows from appearing. This functionality can be controlled separately for instances of...
V-17183	Medium	Navigation to URLs embedded in Office products must be blocked.	To protect users from attacks, Internet Explorer usually does not attempt to load malformed URLs. This functionality can be controlled separately for instances of Internet Explorer spawned by...
V-17173	Medium	Disabling of user name and password syntax from being used in URLs must be enforced.	The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) standard allows user authentication to be included in URL strings in the form http://username:password@example.com. A malicious user might use this URL syntax to...
V-17757	Medium	Database functionality configurations must be displayed to the user.	When users open an untrusted Access 2013 database that contains user-programmed executable components, Access opens the database with the components disabled and displays the Message Bar with a...
V-17545	Medium	Trust access for VBA must be disallowed.	VSTO projects require access to the Visual Basic for Applications project system in Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, even though the projects do not use Visual Basic for Applications. Design-time...
V-17174	Medium	Enabling IE Bind to Object functionality must be present.	Internet Explorer performs a number of safety checks before initializing an ActiveX control. It will not initialize a control if the kill bit for the control is set in the registry, or if the...
V-17175	Medium	Saved from URL mark to assure Internet zone processing must be enforced.	Typically, when Internet Explorer loads a web page from a Universal Naming Convention (UNC) share that contains a Mark of the Web (MOTW) comment, indicating the page was saved from a site on the...
V-17810	Medium	The configuration for enabling of hyperlinks must be enforced.	Access underlines hyperlinks that appear in tables, queries, forms, and reports. If this configuration is changed, users might click on dangerous hyperlinks without realizing it, which could pose...
V-26589	Medium	Add-ins to Office applications must be signed by a Trusted Publisher.	Office 2013 applications do not check the digital signature on application add-ins before opening them. Disabling or not configuring this setting may allow an application to load a dangerous...
V-26588	Medium	Scripted Window Security must be enforced.	Malicious websites often try to confuse or trick users into giving a site permission to perform an action allowing the site to take control of the users' computers in some manner. Disabling or not...
V-26587	Medium	File Downloads must be configured for proper restrictions.	Disabling this setting allows websites to present file download prompts via code without the user specifically initiating the download. User preferences may also allow the download to occur...
V-26586	Medium	ActiveX Installs must be configured for proper restriction.	Microsoft ActiveX controls allow unmanaged, unprotected code to run on the user computers. ActiveX controls do not run within a protected container in the browser like the other types of HTML or...
V-26585	Medium	Protection from zone elevation must be enforced.	Internet Explorer places restrictions on each web page 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...
V-26584	Medium	Add-on Management functionality must be allowed.	Internet Explorer add-ons are pieces of code, run in Internet Explorer, to provide additional functionality. Rogue add-ons may contain viruses or other malicious code. Disabling or not configuring...
V-17603	Low	Prompts to convert older databases must be enforced.	When users open databases that were created in the Access 97 file format, Access 2013 prompts them to convert the database to a newer file format. Users can choose to convert the database or...
V-17584	Low	The Save commands default file format must be configured.	When users create new database files, Access saves them in the new Access format. Users can change this functionality by clicking the Office button, clicking "Access Options", and then selecting a...