Title

Importing of home page settings must be disabled. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

Allows users to import their home page setting from another browser into Microsoft Edge. If this policy is enabled, the option to manually import the home page setting is automatically selected. If this policy is disabled, the home page setting is not imported at first run, and users cannot import it manually.

Check Content

The policy value for "Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge/Allow importing of home page settings" 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 "ImportHomepage" is not set to "REG_DWORD = 0", this is a finding.

Fix Text

Set the policy value for "Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge/Allow importing of home page settings" to "disabled".

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-235735r879587_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-235735

Group Title: SRG-APP-000141

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