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The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) Default Protections for Recommended Software must be enabled.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-36703 WINCC-000080 SV-50041r4_rule ECVP-1 Medium
Description
Attackers are constantly looking for vulnerabilities in systems and applications. The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit can enable several mechanisms, such as Data Execution Prevention (DEP), Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR), and Structured Exception Handler Overwrite Protection (SEHOP) on the system and applications adding additional levels of protection.
STIG Date
Windows 2008 Member Server Security Technical Implementation Guide 2015-06-03

Details

Check Text ( C-49494r4_chk )
This is applicable to unclassified systems, for other systems this is NA.

If confirmed that none of the applications are installed on a system, this can be NA.

If the following registry values do not exist or are not configured as specified, this is a finding:

Registry Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Registry Path: \SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\EMET\Defaults\

The Value Names will include the following:
Access
Acrobat
AcrobatReader
Excel
InfoPath
jre6_java
jre6_javaw
jre6_javaws
jre7_java
jre7_javaw
jre7_javaws
Lync
Outlook
Picture Manager
PowerPoint
PPTViewer
Publisher
Visio
VisioViewer
Word
Wordpad
Fix Text (F-49735r3_fix)
This is applicable to unclassified systems, for other systems this is NA.

Configure the policy value for Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> EMET -> "Default Protections for Recommended Software" to "Enabled".

The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit must be installed on the system and the administrative template files added to make this setting available.