Details

Enables user-level installation of native messaging hosts.

If you disable this policy Microsoft Edge will only use native messaging hosts installed on the system level.

By default if you don’t configure this policy Microsoft Edge will allow usage of user-level native messaging hosts.

Solution

Policy Path: Microsoft EdgeNative Messaging
Policy Setting Name: Allow user-level native messaging hosts (installed without admin permissions)

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-security-baselines/security-baseline-for-microsoft-edge-v81/ba-p/1303621

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Configuration Management.This control applies to the following type of system Windows.

References

• 800-53|CM-7

Source

• Tenable.com/audits