Title

The ability of the Office Telemetry Agent to periodically upload telemetry data to a shared folder must be disabled. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

Office Telemetry is a new compatibility monitoring framework. When an Office document or solution is loaded, used, closed, or raises an error in certain Office 2013 applications, the Office Telemetry application adds a record about the event to a local data store. Each record includes a description of the problem and a link to more information. Inventory and usage data is also tracked. The actual logging capability will be enabled, but this policy allows that data to be uploaded to a remote location which, if enabled, could pass information about the internal network and configuration to that remote site.

Check Content

Verify the policy value for User Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Microsoft Office 2013 >> Telemetry Dashboard >> "Turn on data uploading for Office Telemetry Agent" is set to "Disabled". Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\15.0\osm If the value 'enableupload' is REG_DWORD = 0, this is not a finding.

Fix Text

Set the policy value for User Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Microsoft Office 2013 >> Telemetry Dashboard >> "Turn on data uploading for Office Telemetry Agent" to "Disabled".

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-228541r508020_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-228541

Group Title: SRG-APP-000141

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