macOS 15 - Sequoia

The macOS system must disable iCloud Game Center

STIG ID: APPL-15-002160 | SRG: SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049 | Severity: Medium | CCI: CCI-000381 | Vulnerability ID: V-268523

Description

This works only with supervised devices (mobile device management [MDM]) and allows to disable Apple Game Center. The rationale is that Game Center is using Apple ID and will share data on AppleID-based services; therefore, Game Center must be disabled.This setting also prohibits the functionality of adding friends to Game Center.

Check

C-268523r1034509_chk

Verify the macOS system is configured to disable iCloud Game Center with the following command:/usr/bin/osascript -l JavaScript << EOS$.NSUserDefaults.alloc.initWithSuiteName('com.apple.applicationaccess')\.objectForKey('allowGameCenter').jsEOSIf the result is not "false", this is a finding.

Fix

F-72454r1034508_fix

Configure the macOS system to disable iCloud Game Center by installing the "com.apple.applicationaccess" configuration profile.