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V-268424CAT II — Medium severitySV-268424r1034212_rule

The macOS system must disable hot corners.

Rule version APPL-15-000007 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-01

Discussion

Hot corners must be disabled.

The information system conceals, via the session lock, information previously visible on the display with a publicly viewable image. Although hot corners can be used to initiate a session lock or to launch useful applications, they can also be configured to disable an automatic session lock from initiating. Such a configuration introduces the risk that a user might forget to manually lock the screen before stepping away from the computer.

Check

Verify the macOS system is configured to disable hot corners with the following command:

/usr/bin/profiles -P -o stdout | /usr/bin/grep -Ec '"wvous-bl-corner" = 0|"wvous-br-corner" = 0|"wvous-tl-corner" = 0|"wvous-tr-corner" = 0'

If the result is not "4", this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the macOS system to disable hot corners by installing the "com.apple.ManagedClient.preferences" configuration profile.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-268424
Group title
SRG-OS-000031-GPOS-00012
Rule ID
SV-268424r1034212_rule
Check ID
C-72454r1034210_chk
Fix ID
F-72355r1034211_fix