SV-235767r960972: A website's ability to query for payment methods must be disabled. | Microsoft Edge STIG SCAP Benchmark

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Assessment Title

Rule Text

A website's ability to query for payment methods must be disabled.

Description

Discussion Text

This setting determines whether websites can check if the user has payment methods saved. If this policy is disabled, websites that use "PaymentRequest.canMakePayment" or "PaymentRequest.hasEnrolledInstrument" API will be informed that no payment methods are available. If this policy is enabled or is not set, websites can check to determine if the user has payment methods saved.

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

IA Controls

NIST SP 800-53

Not mappedCCI-000381

References

DPMS Target Microsoft Edge DISA DPMS Target Microsoft Edge 5280

Checks

DISA STIG (Manual Reference)

The policy value for "Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge/Allow websites to query for available payment methods" must be set to "disabled".

Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following key:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge

If the value for PaymentMethodQueryEnabled is not set to "REG_DWORD = 0", this is a finding.

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.edge:def:142
# A website's ability to query for payment methods 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.

# Check that the setting 'Allow websites to query for available payment methods' is disabled.
# 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\Microsoft\Edge').GetValueKind('PaymentMethodQueryEnabled').ToString()]) -eq 'reg_dword') -and (((Get-ItemProperty -Path 'Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge' -Name 'PaymentMethodQueryEnabled' -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) | Select-Object -ExpandProperty 'PaymentMethodQueryEnabled') -eq 0))
}

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

Assessment Script Powered by AISyntax-verified

A standalone PowerShell script to assess this control automatically. Review before running it in your environment.

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

# OVAL Definition: oval:mil.disa.stig.edge:def:142
$compliance = (Get-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge' -Name PaymentMethodQueryEnabled -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null -or $(Get-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge' -Name PaymentMethodQueryEnabled).PaymentMethodQueryEnabled -eq 0
if ($compliance) { Write-Output "PASS"; Exit 0 } else { Write-Output "FAIL"; Exit 1 }

Remediation

Set the policy value for "Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge/Allow websites to query for available payment methods" to "disabled".