Plugins must be disabled by default.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-44781	DTBC-0034	SV-57615r2_rule		Medium

Description
Specifies a list of plugins that are disabled in Google Chrome and prevents users from changing this setting. The wildcard characters * and ? can be used to match sequences of arbitrary characters. * matches an arbitrary number of characters while ? specifies an optional single character, i.e. matches zero or one characters. The escape character is \, so to match actual *, ?, or \ characters, you can put a \ in front of them. If you enable this setting, the specified list of plugins is never used in Google Chrome. The plugins are marked as disabled in about:plugins and users cannot enable them. Note that this policy can be overridden by ‘EnabledPlugins’ and ‘DisabledPluginsExceptions’. If this policy is left not set the user can use any plugin installed on the system except for hard-coded incompatible, outdated or dangerous plugins.

Description

Specifies a list of plugins that are disabled in Google Chrome and prevents users from changing this setting. The wildcard characters * and ? can be used to match sequences of arbitrary characters. * matches an arbitrary number of characters while ? specifies an optional single character, i.e. matches zero or one characters. The escape character is \, so to match actual *, ?, or \ characters, you can put a \ in front of them. If you enable this setting, the specified list of plugins is never used in Google Chrome. The plugins are marked as disabled in about:plugins and users cannot enable them. Note that this policy can be overridden by ‘EnabledPlugins’ and ‘DisabledPluginsExceptions’. If this policy is left not set the user can use any plugin installed on the system except for hard-coded incompatible, outdated or dangerous plugins.

STIG	Date
Google Chrome Current Windows STIG	2016-12-01

Details

Check Text ( C-49561r2_chk )
Universal method: 1. In the omnibox (address bar) type chrome://policy 2. If DisabledPlugins is not displayed under the Policy Name column or it is not set to * under the Policy Value column, then this is a finding. Windows method: 1. Start regedit 2. Navigate to HKLM\Software\Policies\Google\Chrome\DisabledPlugins 3. If the DisabledPlugins key does not exist, or the 1 value name does not exist under that key and the value data is not set to * then this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-49561r2_chk )

Universal method:
1. In the omnibox (address bar) type chrome://policy
2. If DisabledPlugins is not displayed under the Policy Name column or it is not set to * under the Policy Value column, then this is a finding.

Windows method:
1. Start regedit
2. Navigate to HKLM\Software\Policies\Google\Chrome\DisabledPlugins
3. If the DisabledPlugins key does not exist, or the 1 value name does not exist under that key and the value data is not set to * then this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-49873r2_fix)
Windows group policy: 1. Open the group policy editor tool with gpedit.msc 2. Navigate to Policy Path: Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Google\Google Chrome\ Policy Name: Specify a list of disabled plugins Policy State: Enabled Policy Value: *