macOS 15 - Sequoia

The macOS system must disable Location Services

STIG ID: APPL-15-002004 | SRG: SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049 | Severity: Medium | CCI: CCI-000381 | Vulnerability ID: V-268480

Description

Location Services must be disabled.The information system must be configured to provide only essential capabilities. Disabling Location Services helps prevent unauthorized connection of devices, transfer of information, and tunneling.

Check

C-268480r1034380_chk

Verify the macOS system is configured to disable Location Services with the following command:/usr/bin/sudo -u _locationd /usr/bin/osascript -l JavaScript << EOS$.NSUserDefaults.alloc.initWithSuiteName('com.apple.locationd')\.objectForKey('LocationServicesEnabled').jsEOSIf the result is not "false", this is a finding.

Fix

F-72411r1034379_fix

Configure the macOS system to disable Location Services with the following command:/usr/bin/defaults write /var/db/locationd/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.locationd LocationServicesEnabled -bool false; pid=$(/bin/launchctl list | /usr/bin/awk '/com.apple.locationd/ { print $1 }')kill -9 $pid