macOS 15 - Sequoia

The macOS system must disable the System Settings pane for Wallet and Apple Pay

STIG ID: APPL-15-002052 | SRG: SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049 | Severity: Medium | CCI: CCI-000381 | Vulnerability ID: V-268506

Description

The System Settings pane for Wallet and Apple Pay must be disabled.Disabling the System Settings pane prevents the users from configuring Wallet and Apple Pay. Enabling any service increases the attack surface for an intruder. By disabling unnecessary services, the attack surface is minimized.

Check

C-268506r1034458_chk

Verify the macOS system is configured to disable the System Settings pane for Wallet and Apple Pay with the following command:/usr/bin/profiles show -output stdout-xml | /usr/bin/xmllint --xpath '//key[text()="DisabledSystemSettings"]/following-sibling::*[1]' - | /usr/bin/grep -c "com.apple.WalletSettingsExtension"If the result is not "1", this is a finding.

Fix

F-72437r1034457_fix

Configure the macOS system to disable the System Settings pane for Wallet and Apple Pay by installing the "com.apple.systempreferences" configuration profile.