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V-277148CAT II — Medium severitySV-277148r1148896_rule

The macOS system must disable password hints.

Rule version APPL-26-003012 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-01

Discussion

Password hints must be disabled.

Password hints leak information about passwords that are currently in use and can lead to loss of confidentiality.

Check

Verify the macOS system is configured to disable password hints with the following command:

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

If the result is not "0", this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the macOS system to disable password hints by installing the "com.apple.loginwindow" configuration profile.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-277148
Group title
SRG-OS-000079-GPOS-00047
Rule ID
SV-277148r1148896_rule
Check ID
C-81303r1148894_chk
Fix ID
F-81208r1148895_fix