STIG V-272477 | The macOS system must disable iPhone ...

macOS 15 - Sequoia

The macOS system must disable iPhone Mirroring

STIG ID: APPL-15-002271 | SRG: SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048 | Severity: Medium | CCI: CCI-000213,CCI-000381,CCI-001443 | Vulnerability ID: V-272477

Description

iPhone Mirroring must be disabled to prevent file transfers to or from unauthorized devices. Disabling iPhone Mirroring also prevents potentially unauthorized applications from appearing as if they are installed on the Mac.Satisfies: SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048, SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049, SRG-OS-000300-GPOS-00118

Check

C-272477r1069484_chk

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

Fix

F-76434r1069483_fix

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