The ability to create an online presentation programmatically must be disabled.

From Microsoft Office System 2013 STIG

Part of DTOO409 - Disable programmatic creation of online presentation

Associated with: CCI-000366

SV-53211r2_rule The ability to create an online presentation programmatically must be disabled.

Vulnerability discussion

Allowing online presentations to be created programmatically allows for the capability of malicious content to become imbedded in those programmatically created presentations.

Check content

Verify the policy value for User Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Microsoft Office 2013 >> Present Online >> "Restrict programmatic access for creating online presentations in PowerPoint and Word" is set to "Enabled". Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following hive: HKEY_Users For every users profile hive under HKEY_Users, navigate to the following key: \software\policies\Microsoft\office\15.0\common\broadcast If the value “disableprogrammaticaccess” is REG_DWORD = 1 for every user profile hive, this is not a finding.

Fix text

Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2013 -> Present Online -> "Restrict programmatic access for creating online presentations in PowerPoint and Word" to "Enabled".

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