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The macOS system must set smart card certificate trust to moderate.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-268471APPL-15-001060SV-268471r1034353_ruleCCI-000185medium
Description
The macOS system must be configured to block access to users who are no longer authorized (i.e., users with revoked certificates). To prevent the use of untrusted certificates, the certificates on a smart card must meet the following criteria: its issuer has a system-trusted certificate, the certificate is not expired, its "valid-after" date is in the past, and it passes Certificate Revocation List (CRL) and Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) checking. By setting the smart card certificate trust level to moderate, the system will execute a soft revocation, i.e., if the OCSP/CRL server is unreachable, authentication will still succeed. NOTE: Before applying this setting, refer to the smart card supplemental guidance. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000066-GPOS-00034, SRG-OS-000377-GPOS-00162, SRG-OS-000384-GPOS-00167, SRG-OS-000403-GPOS-00182
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.

IAC-10.2PKI-Based Authentication
1.00
NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (53) 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-12Session Termination
1.00
AC-17(10)Authenticate Remote Commands
1.00
AC-17(2)Protection of Confidentiality and Integrity Using Encryption
1.00
AC-2(1)Automated System Account Management
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-4(17)Domain Authentication
1.00

+43 more (top 10 by confidence shown)

CCI1 mapping
CCI-000185
1.00

Details

Check Text (C-268471r1034353_chk)

Verify the macOS system is configured to check the revocation status of user certificates with the following command: /usr/bin/osascript -l JavaScript << EOS $.NSUserDefaults.alloc.initWithSuiteName('com.apple.security.smartcard')\ .objectForKey('checkCertificateTrust').js EOS If the result is not "2", this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-72402r1034352_fix)

Configure the macOS system to check the revocation status of user certificates by installing the "com.apple.security.smartcard" configuration profile. NOTE: To ensure continued access to the operating system, consult the supplemental guidance provided with the STIG before applying the configuration profile.