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Microsoft Windows: User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode

🗓️ 12 Jun 2018 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2018 Greenbone AGType 
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This policy setting determines the behavior of all User Account Control (UAC) policies for the entire system. This is the setting that turns UAC on or off.

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.109247");
  script_version("2023-08-25T16:09:51+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-08-25 16:09:51 +0000 (Fri, 25 Aug 2023)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2018-06-12 14:54:04 +0200 (Tue, 12 Jun 2018)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"0.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:N");
  script_tag(name:"qod", value:"97");

  script_name("Microsoft Windows: User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2018 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Policy");
  script_dependencies("compliance_tests.nasl", "smb_reg_service_pack.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("Compliance/Launch");

  script_add_preference(name:"Value", type:"radio", value:"1;0", id:1);

  script_xref(name:"Policy", value:"CIS Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise (Release 22H2) Benchmark v2.0.0: 2.3.17.6 (L1) Ensure 'User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode' is set to 'Enabled'");
  script_xref(name:"Policy", value:"CIS Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise (Release 2004) Benchmark v1.9.1: 2.3.17.6 (L1) Ensure 'User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode' is set to 'Enabled'");
  script_xref(name:"Policy", value:"CIS Microsoft Windows Server 2019 RTM (Release 1809) Benchmark v1.1.0: 2.3.17.6 (L1) Ensure 'User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode' is set to 'Enabled'");
  script_xref(name:"Policy", value:"CIS Controls Version 7: 16.2 Configure Centralized Point of Authentication");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-protection/security-policy-settings/user-account-control-run-all-administrators-in-admin-approval-mode");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"This policy setting determines the behavior of all User Account
Control (UAC) policies for the entire system. This is the setting that turns UAC on or off.

(C) Microsoft Corporation 2017.");

  exit(0);
}

include("smb_nt.inc");
include("policy_functions.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

target_os = "Microsoft Windows 7 or later";
win_min_ver = "6.1";
title = "User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode";
solution = "Set following UI path accordingly:
Computer Configuration/Windows Settings/Security Settings/Local Policies/Security Options/" + title;
test_type = "RegKey";
type = "HKLM";
key = "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System";
item = "EnableLUA";
reg_path = type + "\" + key + "!" + item;
default = script_get_preference("Value");

if(!policy_verify_win_ver(min_ver:win_min_ver)){
  results = policy_report_wrong_os(target_os:target_os);
}else{
  results = policy_match_exact_reg_dword(key:key, item:item, type:type, default:default);
}

value = results["value"];
comment = results["comment"];
compliant = results["compliant"];

policy_reporting(result:value, default:default, compliant:compliant, fixtext:solution,
  type:test_type, test:reg_path, info:comment);
policy_set_kbs(type:test_type, cmd:reg_path, default:default, solution:solution, title:title,
  value:value, compliant:compliant);

exit(0);

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