documentation_complete: true

title: 'Disable Search Suggestion'

description: "Chromium tries to guess what users are searching for when users enter\nsearch data in the search Omnibox. This should be disabled by \nsetting <tt>SearchSuggestEnabled</tt> to <tt>false</tt> in the Chromium \npolicy file."

rationale: |-
    Search suggestion should be disabled as it could lead to searches being conducted
    that were never intended to be made.

severity: unknown

identifiers:
    cce: ""

references:
    disa: ""
    nist: ""
    stigid: DTBC0027

ocil_clause: 'it is not disabled'

ocil: |-
    To verify that search suggestion is disabled, run the following command:
    <pre>$ grep SearchSuggestEnabled /etc/chromium/policies/managed/*.json</pre>
    The output should contain:
    <pre>"SearchSuggestEnabled": false,</pre>
