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
Graphical Method:
Perform the following steps to disable Remote Apple Events:
Open 'System Preferences
Select 'Sharing
Set Remote Apple Events to disabled
Terminal Method:
Run the following commands to set Remote Apple Events to Off:
$ /usr/bin/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: 0bcb92094dd1291eee432b300a66abbdd985276859cf54875fe7068e127dc7dc