STIG V-268564 | The macOS system must disable Erase C...

macOS 15 - Sequoia

The macOS system must disable Erase Content and Settings

STIG ID: APPL-15-005061 | SRG: SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049 | Severity: Medium | CCI: CCI-000381 | Vulnerability ID: V-268564

Description

Erase Content and Settings must be disabled.Without disabling the Erase Content and Settings configuration, forensics data could be lost if this feature is activated on a compromised system.

Check

C-268564r1034632_chk

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

Fix

F-72495r1034631_fix

Configure the macOS system to disable Erase Content and Settings by installing the "com.apple.applicationaccess" configuration profile.