Disable 3rd Party Cookies

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Description

Third party cookies should be be enabled. To disable third party cookies, set BlockThirdPartyCookies to true in the Chromium policy file.

Rationale

Third party cookies are cookies which can be set by web page elements that are not from the domain that is in the browser's address bar. This prevents cookies from being set by web page elements that are not from the domain that is in the browser's address bar.

ID: xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_rule_chromium_disable_thirdparty_cookies
Severity: Unknown
References: DTBC0015
Updated: about 1 year ago






if ! grep -q BlockThirdPartyCookies /etc/chromium/policies/managed/chrome_stig_policy.json; then
   sed -i -e '/{/a \  "'BlockThirdPartyCookies'": 'true',' /etc/chromium/policies/managed/chrome_stig_policy.json
else
   sed -i -e 's/\"'BlockThirdPartyCookies'.*/\"'BlockThirdPartyCookies'\": 'true',/g' /etc/chromium/policies/managed/chrome_stig_policy.json
fi

Disable 3rd Party Cookies

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Remediation - Shell Script