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Background submission of information to Mozilla must be disabled.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-79053 DTBF190 SV-93759r1_rule Medium
Description
There should be no background submission of technical and other information from DoD computers to Mozilla with portions posted publically.
STIG Date
Mozilla Firefox 2018-04-02

Details

Check Text ( C-78641r1_chk )
Type "about:config" in the address bar of the browser.

Verify that the preferences "datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionEnabled" is set and locked to "false".

Criteria: If the parameter is set incorrectly, this is a finding.

If the setting is not locked, this is a finding.
Fix Text (F-85803r1_fix)
Ensure the preferences "datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionEnabled" is set and locked to "false".