Details

Disabling Remote Apple Events mitigates the risk of an unauthorized program gaining access to the system.

Solution

Perform the following to implement the prescribed state:
Run the following command in Terminal:
sudo /usr/sbin/systemsetup -setremoteappleevents off

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://workbench.cisecurity.org/files/301

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Configuration Management.This control applies to the following type of system Unix.

References

• 800-53|CM-7b.
• CSCv6|9.1

Source

• Tenable.com/audits