Plugins approved for use must be enabled.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-44783	DTBC-0035	SV-57617r3_rule		Medium

Description
Policy specifies a list of plugins that are enabled 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. The specified list of plugins is always used in Google Chrome if they are installed. The plugins are marked as enabled in 'about:plugins' and users cannot disable them. Note that this policy overrides both ‘DisabledPlugins ‘and ‘DisabledPluginsExceptions’. If this policy is left not set the user can disable any plugin installed on the system.

Description

Policy specifies a list of plugins that are enabled 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. The specified list of plugins is always used in Google Chrome if they are installed. The plugins are marked as enabled in 'about:plugins' and users cannot disable them. Note that this policy overrides both ‘DisabledPlugins ‘and ‘DisabledPluginsExceptions’. If this policy is left not set the user can disable any plugin installed on the system.

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

Details

Check Text ( C-49563r6_chk )
Universal method: 1. In the omnibox (address bar) type chrome://policy 2. If EnabledPlugins is not displayed under the Policy Name column or does not contain a list of administrator approved Plugins under the Policy Value column, then this is a finding. Windows method: 1. Start regedit 2. Navigate to HKLM\Software\Policies\Google\Chrome\EnabledPlugins 3. If the EnabledPlugins key does not exist and does not contain a set of administrator approved Plugins then this is a finding. Suggested: the set or subset of Shockwave Flash, Chrome PDF Viewer, Silverlight, Java*

Check Text ( C-49563r6_chk )

Universal method:
1. In the omnibox (address bar) type chrome://policy
2. If EnabledPlugins is not displayed under the Policy Name column or does not contain a list of administrator approved Plugins under the Policy Value column, then this is a finding.

Windows method:
1. Start regedit
2. Navigate to HKLM\Software\Policies\Google\Chrome\EnabledPlugins
3. If the EnabledPlugins key does not exist and does not contain a set of administrator approved Plugins then this is a finding.

Suggested: the set or subset of Shockwave Flash, Chrome PDF Viewer, Silverlight, Java*

Fix Text (F-49875r5_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 enabled plugins Policy State: Enabled Policy Value 1: Shockwave Flash Policy Value 2: Chrome PDF Viewer Policy Value 3: Silverlight Policy Value 4: Java*