The macOS system must secure user's home folders.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>The system must be configured to prevent access to other user's home folders. The default behavior of macOS is to allow all valid users access to the top level of every other user's home folder while restricting access only to the Apple default folders within.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-259514r991592_rule
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
Configure the macOS system to set the appropriate permissions for each user on the system with the following command:
IFS=$'\n'
for userDirs in $( /usr/bin/find /System/Volumes/Data/Users -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d ! \( -perm 700 -o -perm 711 \) | /usr/bin/grep -v "Shared" | /usr/bin/grep -v "Guest" ); do
/bin/chmod og-rwx "$userDirs"
done