Title

Trust EMail from senders in receiver's contact list - Outlook. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

By default, e-mail addresses in users' Contacts list are treated as safe senders for purposes of filtering junk e-mail. If this configuration is changed, e-mail from users' Contacts might be misclassified as junk and cause important information to be lost.

Check Content

The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 -> Tools \ Options -> Preferences -> Junk E-mail “Trust E-mail from Contacts” will be set to “Enabled”. Procedure: Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following key: HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Options\Mail Criteria: If the value JunkMailTrustContacts is REG_DWORD = 1, this is not a finding.

Fix Text

The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 -> Tools \ Options -> Preferences -> Junk E-mail “Trust E-mail from Contacts” will be set to “Enabled”.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-19040r1_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-17807

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