Remote Apple Events must be disabled.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-51559	OSX8-00-00975	SV-65769r1_rule		Medium

Description
Remote Apple Events must be disabled.

STIG	Date
Apple OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Workstation STIG	2015-02-10

Details

Check Text ( C-53889r1_chk )
To check if Remote Apple Events is disabled, run the following command: sudo /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "print com.apple.AEServer:Disabled" /var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd/overrides.plist If the returned value isn't "true" or doesn't exist, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-56363r1_fix)
To disable Remote Apple Events, run the following command: sudo defaults write /private/var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd/overrides.plist "com.apple.AEServer" -dict Disabled -bool true