SV-221575r960963: Metrics reporting to Google must be disabled. | Google Chrome Current Windows STIG SCAP Benchmark

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Assessment Title

Rule Text

Metrics reporting to Google must be disabled.

Description

Discussion Text

Enables anonymous reporting of usage and crash-related data about Google Chrome to Google and prevents users from changing this setting. If you enable this setting, anonymous reporting of usage and crash-related data is sent to Google. A crash report could contain sensitive information from the computer's memory. If you disable this setting, anonymous reporting of usage and crash-related data is never sent to Google. If you enable or disable this setting, users cannot change or override this setting in Google Chrome. If this policy is left not set the setting will be what the user chose upon installation / first run.

How this relates to the STIG checklist: STIG vs SCAP benchmark.

IA Controls

NIST SP 800-53

Not mappedCCI-000381SV-57605V-44771

References

DPMS Target Google Chrome Current Windows DISA DPMS Target Google Chrome Current Windows 4081

Checks

DISA STIG (Manual Reference)

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

Windows method:
 1. Start regedit
 2. Navigate to HKLM\Software\Policies\Google\Chrome\
 3. If the MetricsReportingEnabled value name does not exist or its value data is not set to 0, then this is a finding.

Note: This policy will only display in the chrome://policy tab on domain joined systems. On standalone systems, the policy will not display.

SCC Automation Reference

The reconstructed evaluation script behind this rule's OVAL check(s) — every module a compound check combines, with this rule's own concrete values and DISA's SCC tool's real per-module mechanism curated from static teardown of SCC releases.

# Windows PowerShell
# Reconstructed from oval:mil.disa.stig.chrome:def:240026
# Metrics reporting to Google must be disabled.
# Per-module read mechanism curated from static teardown of DISA's SCC tool
# (SCAP Compliance Checker) -- see the SCC Automation Reference above.

# Registry check
# registry_object (registry_test)
function test_1 {
  return (((@{String='reg_sz';ExpandString='reg_expand_sz';Binary='reg_binary';DWord='reg_dword';MultiString='reg_multi_sz';QWord='reg_qword';None='reg_none'}[(Get-Item -Path 'Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Google\Chrome').GetValueKind('MetricsReportingEnabled').ToString()]) -eq 'reg_dword') -and (((Get-ItemProperty -Path 'Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Google\Chrome' -Name 'MetricsReportingEnabled' -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) | Select-Object -ExpandProperty 'MetricsReportingEnabled') -eq '0'))
}

if (test_1) {
  Write-Output "PASS"
} else {
  Write-Output "FAIL"
}

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Syntax-checked as valid PowerShell. Not executed here — running it for real needs the actual google_chrome target this check assesses.

# OVAL Definition: oval:mil.disa.stig.chrome:def:240026
$compliant = Test-Path -Path "HKLM:\Software\Policies\Google\Chrome\MetricsReportingEnabled" -and (Get-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\Software\Policies\Google\Chrome\MetricsReportingEnabled").MetricsReportingEnabled -eq 0
if ($compliant) { Write-Output "PASS"; Exit 0 } else { Write-Output "FAIL"; Exit 1 }

Remediation

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: Enable reporting of usage and crash-related data
    Policy State: Disabled
    Policy Value: N/A