Details
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 configuring this setting allows unknown websites to:
- Create browser windows appearing to be from the local operating system.
- Draw active windows displaying outside of the viewable areas of the screen capturing keyboard input.
- Overlay parent windows with their own browser windows to hide important system information, choices or prompts.
Solution
Set the policy value for Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2016 (Machine) -> Security Settings -> IE Security 'Scripted Window Security Restrictions' to 'Enabled' and place a check in the 'msaccess.exe' check box.
Supportive Information
The following resource is also helpful.
This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: System and Communications Protection.This control applies to the following type of system Windows.
References
- 800-53|SC-18(3)
- CAT|II
- CCI|CCI-001695
- CSCv6|3.1
- Rule-ID|SV-85555r1_rule
- STIG-ID|DTOO124
- Vuln-ID|V-70931
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