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1.147 APPL-14-005060

Information

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

GROUP ID: V-259568RULE ID: SV-259568r958478

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.

Solution

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

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/24070

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-7, 800-53|CM-7a., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000381, Rule-ID|SV-259568r958478_rule, STIG-ID|APPL-14-005060, Vuln-ID|V-259568

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 6d4ce9179eef41c1601ff3c4cd458d95690c25fcec5ac49dfad5379bdd010d17