Automatic actions must be disabled for blank CDs.

From Apple OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) Workstation Security Technical Implementation Guide

Associated with: CCI-000366

SV-72703r1_rule Automatic actions must be disabled for blank CDs.

Vulnerability discussion

Applications should not be configured to launch automatically when a disk is inserted. This potentially circumvents anti-virus software and allows malicious users to craft disks that can exploit user applications. Disabling Automatic Actions for blank CDs mitigates this risk.

Check content

To check if the system has the correct setting for blank CDs in the configuration profile, run the following command: system_profiler SPConfigurationProfileDataType | grep -A 2 'com.apple.digihub.blank.cd.appeared' If this is not defined or 'action' is not set to '1', this is a finding.

Fix text

This setting is enforced using a configuration profile.

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