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V-268563CAT II — Medium severitySV-268563r1034629_rule

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

Rule version APPL-15-005060 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-01

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-268563
Group title
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
Rule ID
SV-268563r1034629_rule
Check ID
C-72593r1034627_chk
Fix ID
F-72494r1034628_fix