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V-259531

CAT II (Medium)

The macOS system must disable dictation.

Rule ID

SV-259531r958478_rule

STIG

Apple macOS 14 (Sonoma) Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V2R3

CCIs

CCI-000381

Discussion

Dictation must be disabled on Intel-based Macs as the feature On Device Dictation is only available on Apple Silicon devices.

Check Content

For Apple Silicon-based systems, this is not applicable.

Verify the macOS system is configured to disable dictation with the following command:

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

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

Fix Text

Configure the macOS system to disable dictation by installing the "com.apple.applicationaccess" configuration profile.