STIGUI
V-277141CAT II — Medium severitySV-277141r1148875_rule

The macOS system must disable the iCloud Freeform services.

Rule version APPL-26-002270 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-01

Discussion

The macOS built-in Freeform.app connection to Apple's iCloud service must be disabled.

Enabling any service increases the attack surface for an intruder. By disabling unnecessary services, the attack surface is minimized.

Check

Verify the macOS system is configured to disable iCloud Freeform services with the following command:

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

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

Fix

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

Identifiers

Group ID
V-277141
Group title
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
Rule ID
SV-277141r1148875_rule
Check ID
C-81296r1148873_chk
Fix ID
F-81201r1148874_fix