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V-259527

CAT II (Medium)

The macOS system must disable password autofill.

Rule ID

SV-259527r958478_rule

STIG

Apple macOS 14 (Sonoma) Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V2R3

CCIs

CCI-000381

Discussion

Password Autofill must be disabled. macOS allows users to save passwords and use the Password Autofill feature in Safari and compatible apps. To protect against malicious users gaining access to the system, this feature must be disabled to prevent users from being prompted to save passwords in applications.

Check Content

Verify the macOS system is configured to disable password autofill with the following command:

/usr/bin/osascript -l JavaScript << EOS
$.NSUserDefaults.alloc.initWithSuiteName('com.apple.applicationaccess')\
.objectForKey('allowPasswordAutoFill').js
EOS

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

Fix Text

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