macOS 15 - Sequoia

The macOS system must disable Find My service

STIG ID: APPL-15-002180 | SRG: SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049 | Severity: Medium | CCI: CCI-000381 | Vulnerability ID: V-268525

Description

The Find My service must be disabled.A Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution must be used to carry out remote locking and wiping instead of Apple's Find My service.Apple's Find My service uses a personal AppleID for authentication. Organizations must rely on MDM solutions, which have much more secure authentication requirements, to perform remote lock and remote wipe.

Check

C-268525r1034515_chk

Verify the macOS system is configured to disable Find My service with the following command:/usr/bin/osascript -l JavaScript << EOSfunction run() {let pref1 = ObjC.unwrap($.NSUserDefaults.alloc.initWithSuiteName('com.apple.applicationaccess')\.objectForKey('allowFindMyDevice'))let pref2 = ObjC.unwrap($.NSUserDefaults.alloc.initWithSuiteName('com.apple.applicationaccess')\.objectForKey('allowFindMyFriends'))let pref3 = ObjC.unwrap($.NSUserDefaults.alloc.initWithSuiteName('com.apple.icloud.managed')\.objectForKey('DisableFMMiCloudSetting'))if ( pref1 == false && pref2 == false && pref3 == true ) {return("true")} else {return("false")}}EOSIf the result is not "true", this is a finding.

Fix

F-72456r1034514_fix

Configure the macOS system to disable Find My service by installing the "com.apple.applicationaccess" and "com.apple.icloud.managed" configuration profiles.