documentation_complete: true

title: 'Enable the Safe Browsing Feature'

description: "Chromium has the capability to check URLs for known malware and phishing \nassociated with websites through the Safe Browsing Feature. This can be \nenabled by setting <tt>SafeBrowsingEnabled</tt> to <tt>true</tt> in the Chromium\npolicy file."

rationale: |-
    Safe browsing uses a signature database to test sites when they are be loaded
    to ensure that sites do not contain any known malware.

severity: unknown

identifiers:
    cce: ""

references:
    disa: ""
    nist: ""
    stigid: DTBC0038

ocil_clause: 'it is not enabled'

ocil: |-
    To verify that the safe browsing feature is enabled, run the following command:
    <pre>$ grep SafeBrowsingEnabled /etc/chromium/policies/managed/*.json</pre>
    The output should contain:
    <pre>"SafeBrowsingEnabled": true,</pre>
