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V-259568CAT II — Medium severitySV-259568r958478_rule

The macOS system must disable proximity-based password sharing requests.

Rule version APPL-14-005060 · STIG v2 · 2024-12-04

Discussion

Proximity-based password sharing requests must be disabled.

The default behavior of macOS is to allow users to request passwords from other known devices (macOS and iOS). This feature must be disabled to prevent passwords from being shared.

Check

Verify the macOS system is configured to disable proximity-based password sharing requests with the following command:

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

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

Fix

Configure the macOS system to disable proximity-based password sharing requests by installing the "com.apple.applicationaccess" configuration profile.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-259568
Group title
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
Rule ID
SV-259568r958478_rule
Check ID
C-63307r941324_chk
Fix ID
F-63215r941325_fix