STIGUI
V-235732CAT II — Medium severitySV-235732r960963_rule

Importing of cookies must be disabled.

Rule version EDGE-00-000015 · STIG v2 · 2026-02-25

Discussion

Allows users to import cookies from another browser into Microsoft Edge.

If this policy is disabled, cookies are not imported on first run.

If this policy is not configured, cookies are imported on first run.

Check

The policy value for "Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge/Allow importing of cookies" must be set to "disabled".

Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge

If the value for "ImportCookies" is not set to "REG_DWORD = 0", this is a finding.

Fix

Set the policy value for "Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge/Allow importing of cookies" to "disabled".

Identifiers

Group ID
V-235732
Group title
SRG-APP-000141
Rule ID
SV-235732r960963_rule
Check ID
C-38951r626392_chk
Fix ID
F-38914r626393_fix