The macOS system must enable System Integrity Protection.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-214834	AOSX-13-000240	SV-214834r609363_rule		Medium

Description
The System Integrity Protection is vital to prevent unauthorized and unintended information transfer via shared system resources, protect audit tools from unauthorized access, modification, and deletion, limit privileges to change software resident within software libraries, limit the ability of non-privileged users to grant other users direct access to the contents of their home directories/folders. SIP also ensures the presence of an audit record generation capability for DoD-defined auditable events for all operating system components, supports on-demand and after-the-fact reporting requirements, does not alter original content or time ordering of audit records. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000051-GPOS-00024, SRG-OS-000054-GPOS-00025, SRG-OS-000062-GPOS-00031, SRG-OS-000122-GPOS-00063, SRG-OS-000138-GPOS-00069, SRG-OS-000256-GPOS-00097, SRG-OS-000257-GPOS-00098, SRG-OS-000258-GPOS-00099, SRG-OS-000259-GPOS-00100, SRG-OS-000348-GPOS-00136, SRG-OS-000349-GPOS-00137, SRG-OS-000350-GPOS-00138, SRG-OS-000351-GPOS-00139, SRG-OS-000352-GPOS-00140, SRG-OS-000353-GPOS-00141, SRG-OS-000354-GPOS-00142, SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00228, SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00230

Description

The System Integrity Protection is vital to prevent unauthorized and unintended information transfer via shared system resources, protect audit tools from unauthorized access, modification, and deletion, limit privileges to change software resident within software libraries, limit the ability of non-privileged users to grant other users direct access to the contents of their home directories/folders. SIP also ensures the presence of an audit record generation capability for DoD-defined auditable events for all operating system components, supports on-demand and after-the-fact reporting requirements, does not alter original content or time ordering of audit records. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000051-GPOS-00024, SRG-OS-000054-GPOS-00025, SRG-OS-000062-GPOS-00031, SRG-OS-000122-GPOS-00063, SRG-OS-000138-GPOS-00069, SRG-OS-000256-GPOS-00097, SRG-OS-000257-GPOS-00098, SRG-OS-000258-GPOS-00099, SRG-OS-000259-GPOS-00100, SRG-OS-000348-GPOS-00136, SRG-OS-000349-GPOS-00137, SRG-OS-000350-GPOS-00138, SRG-OS-000351-GPOS-00139, SRG-OS-000352-GPOS-00140, SRG-OS-000353-GPOS-00141, SRG-OS-000354-GPOS-00142, SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00228, SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00230

STIG	Date
Apple OS X 10.13 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2021-03-29

Details

Check Text ( C-16034r397074_chk )
System Integrity Protection is a security feature, enabled by default, that protects certain system processes and files from being modified or tampered with. Check the current status of "System Integrity Protection" with the following command: /usr/bin/csrutil status If the result does not show the following, this is a finding. System Integrity Protection status: enabled

Fix Text (F-16032r397075_fix)
To reenable "System Integrity Protection", boot the affected system into "Recovery" mode, launch "Terminal" from the "Utilities" menu, and run the following command: /usr/bin/csrutil enable