SV-260465r960963: Visual Search must be disabled. | Microsoft Edge STIG SCAP Benchmark

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Assessment Title

Rule Text

Visual Search must be disabled.

Description

Discussion Text

Visual Search allows for quick exploration of more related content about entities in an image. If this policy is enabled or not configured, Visual Search will be enabled via image hover, context menu, and search in Sidebar. If this policy is disabled, Visual Search will be disabled and more information about images will not be available via hover, context menu, and search in Sidebar.

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)

Verify the policy value for "Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge/Visual search enabled" is set to "Disabled".

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

If the value for "VisualSearchEnabled" 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:260465
# Visual Search 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.

# Visual Search 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('VisualSearchEnabled').ToString()]) -eq 'reg_dword') -and (((Get-ItemProperty -Path 'Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge' -Name 'VisualSearchEnabled' -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) | Select-Object -ExpandProperty 'VisualSearchEnabled') -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 ms_edge target this check assesses.

# OVAL Definition: oval:mil.disa.stig.edge:def:260465
$regPath = "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge"
$regKey = "VisualSearchEnabled"
if (-not (Test-Path $regPath)) { $exists = $false } else { $exists = $true }
if ($exists -eq $false) { Write-Output "PASS"; exit 0 }
$regValue = Get-ItemProperty -Path $regPath -Name $regKey -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
if ($regValue -eq $null -or $regValue.$regKey -ne 0) { Write-Output "FAIL"; exit 1 } else { Write-Output "PASS"; exit 0 }

Remediation

Set the policy value for "Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge/Visual search enabled" to "Disabled".