The Quarantine Room Mac OS
May 03, 2019 Yes, in macOS the purpose of document quarantine is to get in your way and ruin your day. Sep 27, 2017 Mac OS X contains a vulnerability that allows the bypass of the Apple Quarantine and the execution of arbitrary Javascript code without restrictions. Basically, Apple's Quarantine works by setting an extended attribute to downloaded files (and also to files extracted from downloaded archive/image) that tells the system to open/execute those files in a restricted environment. Considered to be one of the oldest government agencies, Bureau of Quarantine (BOQ) is the health authority and a line bureau of the Department of Health (DOH). BOQ is mandated to ensure security against the introduction and spread of infectious diseases, emerging diseases and public health emergencies of international concern (PHEIC). Gatekeeper builds upon File Quarantine, which was introduced in Mac OS X Leopard and expanded in Mac OS X Snow Leopard. The feature originated in version 10.7.3 of Mac OS X Lion as the command-line utility spctl. A graphical user interface was added in OS X Mountain Lion and later also in.
macOS builds no longer run when with a quarantine attribute due to incorrect codesigning
Repro Steps:
1. Download a mac editor (2021.1.x for instance)
2. Once downloaded, build a mac player
3. Move mac player to a different mac and try to run
Actual Result
A new error shows up (it started to happen around mi-December 2020 for me an a colleague) : '<Unity app> is damaged and can't be opened. You should move it to the Trash'
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Expected Result
Before it started happening, another dialog was showing up and I could still open the app: 'macOS cannot verify the developer of '<Unity app>. Are you sure you want to open it?'
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Workarounds (you only need to apply one):
- After exporting the game on a path, resign the whole app bundle: 'codesign --deep -s - -f path/to/game.app'
- Remove the quarantine attribute from the command line: 'xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine path/to/game.app'
- User an GUI app to strip the flag: xattred