The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) All Protection Profile for popular software must be implemented.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-36704	WINEM-000081	SV-50507r1_rule	ECVP-1	Medium

Description
Attackers are constantly looking for vulnerabilities in systems and applications. The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit can enable several mechanisms, such as Data Execution Prevention (DEP) on the system and applications adding additional levels of protection.

STIG	Date
Windows 2003 Domain Controller Security Technical Implementation Guide	2013-07-03

Details

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Verify the "All" Protection Profile has been implemented. This implements mitigations to protect Internet Explorer, Office programs, and numerous third party applications. If the following registry subkeys do not exist, this is a finding. Registry Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Path: \Microsoft\EMET\ The subkeys will include the following: 7z.exe 7zfm.exe 7zg.exe acrobat.exe acrord32.exe chrome.exe communicator.exe excel.exe firefox.exe googletalk.exe iexplorer.exe infopath.exe itunes.exe java.exe javaw.exe javaws.exe mirc.exe moe.exe msaccess.exe msnmsgr.exe mspub.exe msworks.exe opera.exe outlook.exe photoshop.exe pidgin.exe plugin-container.exe powerpnt.exe pptview.exe quicktimeplayer.exe rar.exe realconverter.exe realplay.exe safari.exe skype.exe thunderbird.exe unrar.exe visio.exe vlc.exe vpreview.exe winamp.exe windowslivesync.exe windowslivewriter.exe winrar.exe winword.exe winzip32.exe winzip64.exe wkscal.exe wkscalrem.exe wlsync.exe wmplayer.exe Additional details of the implementation can be viewed with the following. Open a command prompt. Navigate to the EMET installation directory, typically \Program Files\EMET. Execute the following command - "EMET_Conf --list".

Check Text ( C-46268r2_chk )

Verify the "All" Protection Profile has been implemented. This implements mitigations to protect Internet Explorer, Office programs, and numerous third party applications.

If the following registry subkeys do not exist, this is a finding.

Registry Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Path: \Microsoft\EMET\

The subkeys will include the following:
7z.exe
7zfm.exe
7zg.exe
acrobat.exe
acrord32.exe
chrome.exe
communicator.exe
excel.exe
firefox.exe
googletalk.exe
iexplorer.exe
infopath.exe
itunes.exe
java.exe
javaw.exe
javaws.exe
mirc.exe
moe.exe
msaccess.exe
msnmsgr.exe
mspub.exe
msworks.exe
opera.exe
outlook.exe
photoshop.exe
pidgin.exe
plugin-container.exe
powerpnt.exe
pptview.exe
quicktimeplayer.exe
rar.exe
realconverter.exe
realplay.exe
safari.exe
skype.exe
thunderbird.exe
unrar.exe
visio.exe
vlc.exe
vpreview.exe
winamp.exe
windowslivesync.exe
windowslivewriter.exe
winrar.exe
winword.exe
winzip32.exe
winzip64.exe
wkscal.exe
wkscalrem.exe
wlsync.exe
wmplayer.exe

Additional details of the implementation can be viewed with the following.
Open a command prompt.
Navigate to the EMET installation directory, typically \Program Files\EMET.
Execute the following command - "EMET_Conf --list".

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Open a command prompt. Navigate to the EMET installation directory, typically \Program Files\EMET. Execute the following command -'EMET_Conf --import "deployment\protection profiles\all.xml"' The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit must be installed on the system to make this setting available.