SV-235771r960963: The Share Experience feature must be disabled. | Microsoft Edge STIG SCAP Benchmark

Loading benchmark…

Assessment Title

Rule Text

The Share Experience feature must be disabled.

Description

Discussion Text

If this policy is set to "ShareAllowed" (the default), users will be able to access the Windows 10 Share experience from the Settings and More menu in Microsoft Edge to share with other apps on the system. If this policy is set to "ShareDisallowed", users will not be able to access the Windows 10 Share experience. If the Share button is on the toolbar, it will also be hidden. Policy options mapping: - ShareAllowed (0) = Allow using the Share experience. - ShareDisallowed (1) = Do not allow using the Share experience.

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/Configure the Share experience" must be set to "enabled" with the option value set to "Don't allow using the Share experience".

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

If the value for "ConfigureShare" is not set to "REG_DWORD = 1", 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:146
# The Share Experience feature 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 'Configure the Share experience' is enabled with the option value set to 'Don't allow using the Share experience'.
# 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('ConfigureShare').ToString()]) -eq 'reg_dword') -and (((Get-ItemProperty -Path 'Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge' -Name 'ConfigureShare' -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) | Select-Object -ExpandProperty 'ConfigureShare') -eq 1))
}

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:146
$compliant = Test-Path -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\ConfigureShare" -and ((Get-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\ConfigureShare").value -eq 1)
if ($compliant) { Write-Output "PASS"; Exit 0 } else { Write-Output "FAIL"; Exit 1 }

Remediation

Set the policy value for "Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge/Configure the Share experience" to "Don't allow using the Share experience".