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When you unZip an archive which has been flagged, the xattr is normally propagated to all items which are saved from that, a behaviour which ensures that compressed apps retain their flag when uncompressed, for example. The quarantine flag is among the stickiest of all xattrs. However, there’s no method by which you can add or modify these, and they don’t appear to apply to command tools such as curl, which is often used to bypass quarantine flag attachment.

Although this Exceptions property list doesn’t cover every client, it should ensure that most do protect their downloads with quarantine flags. Referring to the app by its ID of, that first assigns the app to an app category of public-category.internet, and then sets the app to set the quarantine flag on all documents that it creates, including everything that it downloads.Īmong the existing overrides in Catalina, for example, are and, which ensures that Transmission, Xtorrent and PythonMac BitTorrent clients should write quarantine flags to all their downloaded files.

Overrides, which can override other settings.įor example, the entry in the Additions dictionary for the popular BitTorrent client Transmission reads:.

MergeDocumentTypes, which merges some document types such as doc and docx for specific apps.

LaunchOverrides, which can disable specific version ranges of apps from being launched these prevent many older apps from being run.

HighResolutionOverrides, which overrides High Res options for apps.

AppNapOverrides, which sets App Nap behaviours.

Additions, which assigns a lot of app categories, sets Java version requirements, and determines default settings for quarantine on documents created by apps.

The ist property list contains five dictionaries: MacOS also provides a set of overrides to what appears in the ist of many apps, listed in the Additions item in /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/ist. If an unsandboxed app’s ist doesn’t set LSFileQuarantineEnabled explicitly, then the default is not to set the quarantine flag. When this is set to true, every new file created by that app should have the quarantine flag set when false, they won’t unless macOS overrides that behaviour. The entry there which controls flag behaviour is named LSFileQuarantineEnabled, and you can inspect this in each app to check what should happen when that app creates a new file, for example when downloading something from the Internet. Setting the quarantine flag is normally determined the ist property list which every app is required to contain.

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The use of these flags in security is very much a gentleman’s agreement, which is easily broken when software doesn’t behave like a gentleman.

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Any developer, including malware authors, can download files from the Internet without setting the flag on them, and any app on your Mac can change or strip the quarantine flag on any item to which it has write permission. The quarantine flag is an opt-in system, not one imposed by macOS itself. Custom app download-installers and most updaters either don’t set the flag at all, or, when one is set, remove it (for example, Sparkle-based updaters). Quarantine and the extended attribute (xattr) originated in macOS 10.5 in 2007, although Gatekeeper didn’t appear until 10.7 in 2011-12, at around the same time that sandboxing was introduced.Īll files which are downloaded from the Internet, using HTTPS or HTTP, in email messages, over AirDrop, and by other means, can have a quarantine flag attached to them by the app which performs the downloading.

And in most cases, macOS doesn’t even know why they are there. For a start, the majority of items on your Mac which carry a quarantine flag aren’t apps at all, but non-executable documents.

In fact, there’s a great deal more to quarantine and its extended attribute than that.

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We all know that a ‘quarantine flag’ is attached to files which are downloaded from the Internet, using most but not all apps, and determines whether an app needs to undergo a full first run check by Gatekeeper.