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Microsoft Windows: Disable Windows Error Reporting

🗓️ 25 Jun 2018 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2018 Greenbone AGType 
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Disable Windows Error Reporting policy to prevent data collection and sharing of problem informatio

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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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.109366");
  script_version("2023-12-22T05:05:24+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-12-22 05:05:24 +0000 (Fri, 22 Dec 2023)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2018-06-25 11:52:59 +0200 (Mon, 25 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: Disable Windows Error Reporting");
  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 11 Enterprise Benchmark v2.0.0: 18.9.20.1.14 (L2) Ensure 'Turn off Windows Error Reporting' is set to 'Enabled'");
  script_xref(name:"Policy", value:"CIS Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise (Release 22H2) Benchmark v2.0.0: 18.9.20.1.14 (L2) Ensure 'Turn off Windows Error Reporting' is set to 'Enabled'");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=25250");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"This policy setting turns off Windows Error Reporting, so that
reports are not collected or sent to either Microsoft or internal servers within your organization
when software unexpectedly stops working or fails.

If you enable this policy setting, Windows Error Reporting does not send any problem information to
Microsoft. Additionally, solution information is not available in Security and Maintenance in
Control Panel.

If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the Turn off Windows Error Reporting policy
setting in Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/System/Internet Communication Management/
Internet Communication settings takes precedence. If Turn off Windows Error Reporting is also either
disabled or not configured, user settings in Control Panel for Windows Error Reporting are applied.

(C) 2015 Microsoft Corporation.");

  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 = "Turn off Windows Error Reporting";
solution = "Set following UI path accordingly:
Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/System/
Internet Communication Management/Internet Communication settings/" + title;
test_type = "RegKey";
type = "HKLM";
key = "SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting";
item = "Disabled";
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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