Vulnerability Discussion

Dictation must be disabled on Intel-based Macs as the feature On Device Dictation is only available on Apple Silicon devices.

Check

For Apple Silicon-based systems, this is not applicable.

Verify the macOS system is configured to disable dictation with the following command:

/usr/bin/osascript -l JavaScript << EOS
$.NSUserDefaults.alloc.initWithSuiteName('com.apple.applicationaccess')\
.objectForKey('allowDictation').js
EOS

If the result is not "false", this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the macOS system to disable dictation by installing the "com.apple.applicationaccess" configuration profile.