macOS 15 - Sequoia

The macOS system must disable Apple Intelligence Image Generation

STIG ID: APPL-15-005150 | SRG: SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049 | Severity: Medium | CCI: CCI-000381 | Vulnerability ID: V-268573

Description

Apple Intelligence features that use off-device artificial intelligence must be disabled.Use of off-device AI poses a data loss risk.

Check

C-268573r1034659_chk

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

Fix

F-72504r1034658_fix

Configure the macOS system to disable Apple Intelligence Image Generation by installing the "com.apple.applicationaccess" configuration profile.