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AADC-CL-000990 - Adobe Acrobat Pro DC Classic periodic downloading of Adobe European certificates must be disabled.

Information

By default, the user can update Adobe European certificates from an Adobe server through the GUI. When updating Adobe European certificates is disabled, it prevents the automatic download and installation of certificates and disables and locks the end user's ability to download those certificates.

Solution

Configure the following registry value:

Note: The Key Name 'cEUTLDownload' is not created by default in the Acrobat Pro DC install and must be created.

Registry Hive:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Registry Path:
\Software\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\2015\Security\cDigSig\cEUTLDownload

Value Name: bLoadSettingsFromURL
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 0

Configure the policy value for User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Adobe Acrobat Pro DC Classic > Preferences > Trust Manager > 'Load trusted certificates from an Adobe EUTL server' to 'Disabled'.

This policy setting requires the installation of the AcrobatProDCClassic custom templates included with the STIG package. 'AcrobatProDCClassic.admx' and 'AcrobatProDCClassic.adml' must be copied to the \Windows\PolicyDefinitions and \Windows\PolicyDefinitions\en-US directories respectively.

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_Adobe_Acrobat_Pro_DC_Classic_V2R1_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

References: 800-53|SC-23(5), CAT|III, CCI|CCI-002470, Rule-ID|SV-213102r557504_rule, STIG-ID|AADC-CL-000990, STIG-Legacy|SV-94833, STIG-Legacy|V-80129, Vuln-ID|V-213102

Plugin: Windows

Control ID: fbcf1cf2013baa04cacf56059a006ebb7bb4657081cd7aa83f2ada7c2d1415d3