STIGUI
V-259569CAT II — Medium severitySV-259569r958478_rule

The macOS system must disable Erase Content and Settings.

Rule version APPL-14-005061 · STIG v2 · 2024-12-04

Discussion

Erase Content and Settings must be disabled.

Check

Verify the macOS system is configured to disable Erase Content and Settings with the following command:

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

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

Fix

Configure the macOS system to disable Erase Content and Settings by installing the "com.apple.applicationaccess" configuration profile.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-259569
Group title
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
Rule ID
SV-259569r958478_rule
Check ID
C-63308r941327_chk
Fix ID
F-63216r941328_fix