STIGUI
V-235739CAT II — Medium severitySV-235739r960963_rule

Importing of search engine settings must be disabled.

Rule version EDGE-00-000022 · STIG v2 · 2026-02-25

Discussion

Allows users to import search engine settings from another browser into Microsoft Edge.

If this policy is enabled, the option to import search engine settings is automatically selected.

If this policy is disabled, search engine settings are not imported at first run, and users cannot import them manually.

Check

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

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

If the value for "ImportSearchEngine" 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 search engine settings" to "disabled".

Identifiers

Group ID
V-235739
Group title
SRG-APP-000141
Rule ID
SV-235739r960963_rule
Check ID
C-38958r626413_chk
Fix ID
F-38921r626414_fix