WN11-CC-000215 - Explorer Data Execution Prevention must be enabled.

Information

Data Execution Prevention (DEP) provides additional protection by performing checks on memory to help prevent malicious code from running. This setting will prevent Data Execution Prevention from being turned off for File Explorer.

Solution

The default behavior is for data execution prevention to be turned on for file explorer.

To correct this, configure the policy value for Computer Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Windows Components >> File Explorer >> 'Turn off Data Execution Prevention for Explorer' to 'Not Configured' or 'Disabled'.

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_MS_Windows_11_V1R4_STIG.zip

Item Details

References: CAT|II, CCI|CCI-002824, Rule-ID|SV-253396r829272_rule, STIG-ID|WN11-CC-000215, Vuln-ID|V-253396

Plugin: Windows

Control ID: 53bfa30dbce27528fbca8b467e90a62313a96e0a22f86399d1dd5407f509d84f