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V-277139CAT II — Medium severitySV-277139r1149403_rule

The macOS system must disable Remote Management.

Rule version APPL-26-002250 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-01

Discussion

Remote Management must be disabled.

Check

Verify the macOS system is configured to disable Remote Management with the following command:

/usr/libexec/mdmclient QuerySecurityInfo 2>/dev/null | /usr/bin/grep -c "RemoteDesktopEnabled = 0"

If the result is not "1", this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the macOS system to disable Remote Management with the following commands:

/System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -deactivate -stop

Identifiers

Group ID
V-277139
Group title
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
Rule ID
SV-277139r1149403_rule
Check ID
C-81294r1149352_chk
Fix ID
F-81199r1148868_fix