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V-259522CAT II — Medium severitySV-259522r958478_rule

The macOS system must disable content caching service.

Rule version APPL-14-002140 · STIG v2 · 2024-12-04

Discussion

Content caching must be disabled.

Content caching is a macOS service that helps reduce internet data usage and speed up software installation on Mac computers. It is not recommended for devices furnished to employees to act as a caching server.

Check

Verify the macOS system is configured to disable content caching service with the following command:

/usr/bin/osascript -l JavaScript << EOS $.NSUserDefaults.alloc.initWithSuiteName('com.apple.applicationaccess')\ .objectForKey('allowContentCaching').js EOS

If the result is not "false", this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the macOS system to disable content caching service by installing the "com.apple.applicationaccess" configuration profile.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-259522
Group title
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
Rule ID
SV-259522r958478_rule
Check ID
C-63261r941186_chk
Fix ID
F-63169r941187_fix