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The macOS system must be configured to audit all authorization and authentication events.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-268470APPL-15-001044SV-268470r1034350_ruleCCI-003938medium
Description
The auditing system must be configured to flag authorization and authentication (aa) events. Authentication events contain information about the identity of a user, server, or client. Authorization events contain information about permissions, rights, and rules. If audit records do not include aa events, it is difficult to identify incidents and correlate incidents to subsequent events. Audit records can be generated from various components within the information system (e.g., via a module or policy filter). Satisfies: SRG-OS-000365-GPOS-00152, SRG-OS-000392-GPOS-00172, SRG-OS-000458-GPOS-00203, SRG-OS-000463-GPOS-00207, SRG-OS-000465-GPOS-00209, SRG-OS-000466-GPOS-00210, SRG-OS-000467-GPOS-00211, SRG-OS-000468-GPOS-00212, SRG-OS-000471-GPOS-00215, SRG-OS-000471-GPOS-00216, SRG-OS-000475-GPOS-00220, SRG-OS-000477-GPOS-00222
STIGDate
Apple macOS 15 (Sequoia) Security Technical Implementation Guide2026-02-06

Related Frameworks

1 mapping across 3 frameworks
SCF0 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (1) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

CHG-04.1Automated Access Enforcement / Auditing
1.00
NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (57) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

AC-2(1)Automated System Account Management
1.00
AC-2(10)Shared and Group Account Credential Change
1.00
AC-2(11)Usage Conditions
1.00
AC-2(2)Automated Temporary and Emergency Account Management
1.00
AC-2(3)Disable Accounts
1.00
AC-2(4)Automated Audit Actions
1.00
AC-3Access Enforcement
1.00
AC-4Information Flow Enforcement
1.00
AC-6(10)Prohibit Non-privileged Users from Executing Privileged Functions
1.00
AC-6(9)Log Use of Privileged Functions
1.00

+47 more (top 10 by confidence shown)

CCI1 mapping
CCI-003938
1.00

Details

Check Text (C-268470r1034350_chk)

Verify the macOS system is configured to audit login events with the following command: /usr/bin/awk -F':' '/^flags/ { print $NF }' /etc/security/audit_control | /usr/bin/tr ',' '\n' | /usr/bin/grep -Ec 'aa' If the result is not "1", this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-72401r1034349_fix)

Configure the macOS system to audit login events with the following command: /usr/bin/grep -qE "^flags.*[^-]aa" /etc/security/audit_control || /usr/bin/sed -i.bak '/^flags/ s/$/,aa/' /etc/security/audit_control; /usr/sbin/audit -s