STIG V-268529 | The macOS system must disable Dictation

macOS 15 - Sequoia

The macOS system must disable Dictation

STIG ID: APPL-15-002230 | SRG: SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049 | Severity: Medium | CCI: CCI-000381 | Vulnerability ID: V-268529

Description

Dictation must be disabled on Intel-based Macs as the feature On Device Dictation is only available on Apple Silicon devices.

Check

C-268529r1034527_chk

For Apple Silicon-based systems, this is not applicable.Verify the macOS system is configured to disable Dictation with the following command:/usr/bin/osascript -l JavaScript << EOS$.NSUserDefaults.alloc.initWithSuiteName('com.apple.applicationaccess')\.objectForKey('allowDictation').jsEOSIf the result is not "false", this is a finding.

Fix

F-72460r1034526_fix

Configure the macOS system to disable Dictation by installing the "com.apple.applicationaccess" configuration profile.