Details

Applications should not be configured to launch automatically when a disk is inserted. This potentially circumvents anti-virus software and allows malicious users to craft disks that can exploit user applications. Disabling Automatic Actions for blank CDs mitigates this risk.

Solution

This setting is enforced using the ‘Custom Policy’ configuration profile.

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_Apple_OS_X_10-13_V2R3_STIG.zip

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-6b.
• CAT|II
• CCI|CCI-000366
• CSCv6|3.1
• Rule-ID|SV-214815r609363_rule
• STIG-ID|AOSX-13-000085
• STIG-Legacy|SV-96203
• STIG-Legacy|V-81489
• Vuln-ID|V-214815

Source

• Tenable.com/audits