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Find My Mac messenger must be disabled.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-59651 AOSX-10-000532 SV-74081r1_rule Medium
Description
In order to prevent unauthorized connection of devices, unauthorized transfer of information, or unauthorized tunneling (i.e., embedding of data types within data types), organizations must disable or restrict unused or unnecessary physical and logical ports/protocols on information systems. Operating systems are capable of providing a wide variety of functions and services. Some of the functions and services provided by default may not be necessary to support essential organizational operations. Additionally, it is sometimes convenient to provide multiple services from a single component (e.g., VPN and IPS); however, doing so increases risk over limiting the services provided by any one component. To support the requirements and principles of least functionality, the operating system must support the organizational requirements providing only essential capabilities and limiting the use of ports, protocols, and/or services to only those required, authorized, and approved to conduct official business or to address authorized quality of life issues. Find My Mac messenger must be disabled.
STIG Date
Apple OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) Workstation Security Technical Implementation Guide 2017-04-06

Details

Check Text ( C-60421r2_chk )
To check if the 'Find My Mac messenger' service is disabled, use the following command:

sudo launchctl print-disabled system | grep com.apple.findmymacmessenger

If the results do not show the following:

"com.apple.findmymacmessenger" => true

this is a finding.
Fix Text (F-65061r1_fix)
To disable the 'Find My Mac messenger' service, run the following command:

sudo launchctl disable system/com.apple.findmymacmessenger

The system may need to be restarted for the update to take effect.