Title

Blogging entries created from inside Office products must be configured for Sharepoint only. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

The blogging feature in Office products enables users to compose blog entries and post them to their blogs directly from Office, without using any additional software. By default, users can post blog entries to any compatible blogging service provider, including Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, a SharePoint or Community Server site, and others. If your organization has policies that govern the posting of blog entries, allowing users to access the blogging feature in Office might enable them to violate those policies.

Check Content

The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2010 -> Miscellaneous “Control Blogging” must be “Enabled (Only SharePoint blogs allowed)”. Procedure: Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following key: HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\Common\Blog Criteria: If the value DisableBlog is REG_DWORD = 1, this is not a finding.

Fix Text

Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2010 -> Miscellaneous “Control Blogging” to “Enabled (Only SharePoint blogs allowed)”.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-33464r1_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-17581

Group Title: DTOO212 - Control Blogging

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