Details

Control whether websites can access nearby Bluetooth devices. Access can be blocked completely or the site required to ask the user each time it wants to access a Bluetooth device.

If this policy is not configured, the default value (‘AskWebBluetooth’, meaning users are asked each time) is used and users can change it.

Policy options mapping:

– BlockWebBluetooth (2) = Do not allow any site to request access to Bluetooth devices via the Web Bluetooth API.

– AskWebBluetooth (3) = Allow sites to ask the user to grant access to a nearby Bluetooth device.

Solution

Set the policy value for ‘Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge/Content settings/Control use of the Web Bluetooth API’ to ‘enabled’ with the option value set to ‘Do not allow any site to request access to Bluetooth devices via the Web Bluetooth API.

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_MS_Edge_V1R4_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-7a.
• CAT|II
• CCI|CCI-000381
• Rule-ID|SV-235744r626523_rule
• STIG-ID|EDGE-00-000027
• Vuln-ID|V-235744

Source

• Tenable.com/audits