Site tracking of a user’s location must be disabled.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>Set whether websites can track users' physical locations. Tracking can be allowed by default ("AllowGeolocation") or denied by default ("BlockGeolocation"), or the user can be asked each time a website requests their location ("AskGeolocation"). If this policy is not configured, "AskGeolocation" is used and the user can change it. Policy options mapping: - AllowGeolocation (1) = Allow sites to track users' physical location. - BlockGeolocation (2) = Do not allow any site to track users' physical location. - AskGeolocation (3) = Ask whenever a site wants to track users' physical location.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-235749r879587_rule
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
Set the policy value for "Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge/Content settings/Default geolocation setting" to "enabled" and select "Don't allow any site to track users' physical location".