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APPL-26-005001 - The macOS system must ensure System Integrity Protection (SIP) is enabled.

Information

SIP is vital to protecting the integrity of the system as it prevents malicious users and software from making unauthorized and/or unintended modifications to protected files and folders; ensures the presence of an audit record generation capability for defined auditable events for all operating system components; protects audit tools from unauthorized access, modification, and deletion; restricts the root user account and limits the actions that the root user can perform on protected parts of the macOS; and prevents nonprivileged users from granting other users direct access to the contents of their home directories and folders.

Note: SIP is enabled by default in macOS.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000051-GPOS-00024, SRG-OS-000054-GPOS-00025, SRG-OS-000057-GPOS-00027, SRG-OS-000058-GPOS-00028, SRG-OS-000059-GPOS-00029, SRG-OS-000062-GPOS-00031, SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048, SRG-OS-000122-GPOS-00063, SRG-OS-000138-GPOS-00069, SRG-OS-000256-GPOS-00097, SRG-OS-000257-GPOS-00098, SRG-OS-000258-GPOS-00099, SRG-OS-000259-GPOS-00100, SRG-OS-000278-GPOS-00108, SRG-OS-000350-GPOS-00138

Solution

To configure the macOS system to enable SIP, boot into "Recovery" mode, launch "Terminal" from the "Utilities" menu, and run the following command:

/usr/bin/csrutil enable

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_Apple_macOS_26_V1R2_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: ACCESS CONTROL, AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY, CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT, SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

References: 800-53|AC-3, 800-53|AU-6(4), 800-53|AU-7(1), 800-53|AU-7a., 800-53|AU-9, 800-53|AU-9(3), 800-53|AU-12a., 800-53|CM-5(6), 800-53|SC-4, CAT|I, CCI|CCI-000154, CCI|CCI-000158, CCI|CCI-000162, CCI|CCI-000163, CCI|CCI-000164, CCI|CCI-000169, CCI|CCI-000213, CCI|CCI-001090, CCI|CCI-001493, CCI|CCI-001494, CCI|CCI-001495, CCI|CCI-001496, CCI|CCI-001499, CCI|CCI-001876, CCI|CCI-001878, Rule-ID|SV-277165r1149180_rule, STIG-ID|APPL-26-005001, Vuln-ID|V-277165

Plugin: Unix

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