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V-268501CAT II — Medium severitySV-268501r1034443_rule

The macOS system must disable iCloud Keychain Sync.

Rule version APPL-15-002040 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-01

Discussion

The macOS system's ability to automatically synchronize a user's passwords to their iCloud account must be disabled.

Apple's iCloud service does not provide an organization with enough control over the storage and access of data and, therefore, password management and synchronization must be controlled by an organization-approved service.

Check

Verify the macOS system is configured to disable iCloud Keychain Sync with the following command:

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

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

Fix

Configure the macOS system to disable iCloud Keychain Sync by installing the "com.apple.applicationaccess" configuration profile.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-268501
Group title
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
Rule ID
SV-268501r1034443_rule
Check ID
C-72531r1034441_chk
Fix ID
F-72432r1034442_fix