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1.64 APPL-26-002008

Information

The macOS system must disable the built-in web server.

GROUP ID: V-277091
RULE ID: SV-277091r1149419

The built-in web server managed by launchd is a nonessential service built into macOS and must be disabled and not running.

Note: The built-in web server is disabled at startup by default with macOS.

Solution

Configure the macOS system to disable the built-in web server with the following command:

/usr/sbin/apachectl stop 2>/dev/null
/bin/launchctl disable system/org.apache.httpd

The system may need a restart for the update to take effect.

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/26538

Item Details

Category: ACCESS CONTROL

References: 800-53|AC-3, CCI|CCI-000213, Rule-ID|SV-277091r1149419_rule, STIG-ID|APPL-26-002008, Vuln-ID|V-277091

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: fdb151475059b3bd0b93adaef40cb8a07106e2c33bfc919835368cb1910afb36