TMA-SAFARI-11.1
Ensure 'Show Status Bar' is not 'Hidden'
Description
This setting controls whether mousing over a link displays the full URL that the link will follow. Rationale: Showing the full URL allows users to validate that a link is performing the action it claims, and may prevent users from following malicious links. Audit reads ShowOverlayStatusBar from the com.apple.Safari preference domain of the account running the scan (the PDF checks the same token in com.apple.Safari.plist; manual check: Follow the below steps and verify that Show Status Bar is not 'Hidden`: 1. Click View. 2. Verify Hide Status bar is displayed.). Safari is sandboxed, so the reading process needs Full Disk Access on macOS 10.14+. A missing key exits non-zero and is reported as FAIL even where the built-in default is compliant. Values forced by a configuration profile live in /Library/Managed Preferences and are not read here.
How it is checked
Audit method: Shell command
out=$(defaults read com.apple.Safari ShowOverlayStatusBar 2>/dev/null) || exit 1; printf '%s\n' "$out"- Expected output
1
How it is fixed
Fix method: Guidance or infrastructure patch
Follow the below steps to set Show Status Bar: 1. Click View. 2. Click Show Status Bar. Or deploy a configuration profile for com.apple.Safari setting ShowOverlayStatusBar = true, or as the logged-in user run: defaults write com.apple.Safari ShowOverlayStatusBar -bool true and restart Safari.
Properties
- Operating systems
- Any
- Tags
- safaribrowsercis-l1
- Reference
- CIS macOS Safari Benchmark v2.0.0 - 11.1 Ensure 'Show Status Bar' is not 'Hidden'
Check this host
Run this on a machine you are allowed to audit. The scan is read-only.
tmaegis scan --target safari