STIG V-277142 | The macOS system must disable iPhone ...

macOS 26 - Tahoe

The macOS system must disable iPhone Mirroring

STIG ID: APPL-26-002271 | SRG: SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048 | Severity: Medium | CCI: CCI-000213 | Vulnerability ID: V-277142

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-81297r1148876_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').js
EOS

If the result is not "false", this is a finding.

Fix

F-81202r1148877_fix

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