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APPL-15-005060 The macOS system must disable proximity-based password sharing requests.

DISA STIG library V1R8
All changes in this version
first version loaded CAT II

Maps to CM-7 via CCI-000381

Title

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

Control

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.

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.

Related controls

CCI-000381

Fix

Configure the macOS system to disable proximity-based password sharing requests by installing the "com.apple.applicationaccess" configuration profile.