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V-259524

CAT II (Medium)

The macOS system must disable iCloud Game Center.

Rule ID

SV-259524r958478_rule

STIG

Apple macOS 14 (Sonoma) Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V2R3

CCIs

CCI-000381

Discussion

This works only with supervised devices (MDM) and allows Apple Game Center to be disabled. The rationale is Game Center is using Apple ID and will share data on AppleID-based services; therefore, Game Center must be disabled. This setting also prohibits the functionality of adding friends to Game Center.

Check Content

Verify the macOS system is configured to disable iCloud Game Center with the following command:

/usr/bin/osascript -l JavaScript << EOS
$.NSUserDefaults.alloc.initWithSuiteName('com.apple.applicationaccess')\
.objectForKey('allowGameCenter').js
EOS

If the result is not "false", this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure the macOS system to disable iCloud Game Center by installing the "com.apple.applicationaccess" configuration profile.