Information
Apple Events is a technology that allows one program to communicate with other programs. Remote Apple Events allows a program on one computer to communicate with a program on a different computer.
Rationale:
Disabling Remote Apple Events mitigates the risk of an unauthorized program gaining access to the system.
Impact:
With remote Apple events turned on, an AppleScript program running on another Mac can interact with the local computer.
Solution
Perform the following to disable Remote Apple Events:
Graphical Method:
Open System Preferences
Select Sharing
Verify that Remote Apple Evens is not set
Terminal Method:
Run the following commands to set Remote Apple Events to Off:
$ sudo /usr/sbin/systemsetup -setremoteappleevents off
setremoteappleevents: Off
Item Details
Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT, SYSTEM AND SERVICES ACQUISITION
References: 800-53|CM-1, 800-53|CM-2, 800-53|CM-6, 800-53|CM-7, 800-53|CM-7(1), 800-53|CM-9, 800-53|SA-3, 800-53|SA-8, 800-53|SA-10, CSCv7|5.1, CSCv7|9.2
Control ID: 847826bf0a3dff881e857e48cc9be0c672262701a3504b4e5a02c7391e030678