STIGUI
V-268494CAT II — Medium severitySV-268494r1131212_rule

The macOS system must disable sending diagnostic and usage data to Apple.

Rule version APPL-15-002021 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-01

Discussion

The ability to submit diagnostic data to Apple must be disabled.

The information system must be configured to provide only essential capabilities. Disabling the submission of diagnostic and usage information will mitigate the risk of unwanted data being sent to Apple.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000205-GPOS-00083, SRG-OS-000206-GPOS-00084

Check

Verify the macOS system is configured to disable sending diagnostic and usage data to Apple with the following command:

/usr/bin/osascript -l JavaScript << EOS function run() { let pref1 = $.NSUserDefaults.alloc.initWithSuiteName('com.apple.SubmitDiagInfo')\ .objectForKey('AutoSubmit').js let pref2 = $.NSUserDefaults.alloc.initWithSuiteName('com.apple.applicationaccess')\ .objectForKey('allowDiagnosticSubmission').js if ( pref1 == false && pref2 == false ){ return("true") } else { return("false") } } EOS

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

Fix

Configure the macOS system to disable sending diagnostic and usage data to Apple by installing the "com.apple.SubmitDiagInfo" configuration profile.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-268494
Group title
SRG-OS-000205-GPOS-00083
Rule ID
SV-268494r1131212_rule
Check ID
C-72524r1034420_chk
Fix ID
F-72425r1131211_fix