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V-259533CAT II — Medium severitySV-259533r958478_rule

The macOS system must disable Remote Management.

Rule version APPL-14-002250 · STIG v2 · 2024-12-04

Discussion

Remote Management must be disabled.

Check

Verify the macOS system is configured to disable Remote Management with the following command:

/usr/libexec/mdmclient QuerySecurityInfo | /usr/bin/grep -c "RemoteDesktopEnabled = 0"

If the result is not "1", this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the macOS system to disable Remote Management with the following commands:

/System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -deactivate -stop

Identifiers

Group ID
V-259533
Group title
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
Rule ID
SV-259533r958478_rule
Check ID
C-63272r941219_chk
Fix ID
F-63180r941220_fix