Table Request: Content Filter Exclusions (maybe)
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Description
In Big Sur, Apple started shipping exclusions to the firewall tooling. See https://medium.com/tripmode/apple-started-hiding-the-traffic-of-its-own-mac-apps-9dc83c5a9c5b (and countless other sources)
This is represented by the plist /System/Library/Frameworks/NetworkExtension.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Info.plist and may or may not have an API call.
This is the kind of information I might expect in osquery, but it's also a simple plist to read, so I don't really feel a compelling need for a table. Thoughts?
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by inspecting /System/Library/Frameworks/NetworkExtension.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Info.plist on macOS Big Sur and determine whether a public API exposes the same exclusions. Then establish whether osquery should provide a table and define the expected data and validation before identifying implementation and test locations.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- macos
- Domain
- operating-systems, security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100