Background submission of information to Mozilla must be disabled.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
Firefox by default sends information about Firefox to Mozilla servers. There should be no background submission of technical and other information from DoD computers to Mozilla with portions posted publicly.
- ID
- SV-251558r879587_rule
- Version
- FFOX-00-000014
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
Windows group policy:
1. Open the group policy editor tool with "gpedit.msc".
2. Navigate to Policy Path: Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Mozilla\Firefox
Policy Name: Disable Telemetry
Policy State: Enabled