Details

Privileged Locations allow the user to selectively trust files, folders, and hosts to bypass some security restrictions, such as enhanced security and protected view. By default, the user can create privileged locations through the GUI.

Disabling Host-Based Privileged Locations disables and locks the end user’s ability to add hosts as a privileged location prevents them from assigning trust and thereby exempting that location from enhanced security restrictions.

Solution

Configure the following registry value:

Registry Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Registry Path: SoftwarePoliciesAdobeAcrobat Reader2015FeatureLockDown

Value Name: bDisableTrustedSites
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_Adobe_Acrobat_Reader_DC_Classic_V2R1_STIG.zip

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-5(1)
• CAT|II
• CCI|CCI-001813
• Rule-ID|SV-213162r557349_rule
• STIG-ID|ARDC-CL-000320
• STIG-Legacy|SV-80293
• STIG-Legacy|V-65803
• Vuln-ID|V-213162

Source

• Tenable.com/audits