Message size restrictions must be controlled on Receive connectors.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-33561	Exch-2-705	SV-43981r2_rule	ECSC-1	Low

Description
Email system availability depends in part on best practices strategies for setting tuning configurations. For message size restrictions, multiple places exist to set or override inbound or outbound message size. Failure to control the configuration strategy can result in loss of data or system availability. This setting enables the administrator to control the maximum message size on receive connectors. Using connectors to control size limits may necessitate the need to apply message size limitations in multiple places, with the potential of introducing conflicts and impediments in the mail flow. Changing this setting at the connector overrides the global one. Therefore, if operational needs require it, the connector value may be set lower than that of the global value with the rationale and documented in the EDSP.

Description

Email system availability depends in part on best practices strategies for setting tuning configurations. For message size restrictions, multiple places exist to set or override inbound or outbound message size. Failure to control the configuration strategy can result in loss of data or system availability. This setting enables the administrator to control the maximum message size on receive connectors. Using connectors to control size limits may necessitate the need to apply message size limitations in multiple places, with the potential of introducing conflicts and impediments in the mail flow. Changing this setting at the connector overrides the global one. Therefore, if operational needs require it, the connector value may be set lower than that of the global value with the rationale and documented in the EDSP.

STIG	Date
Exchange 2010 Hub Transport Server STIG	2013-09-30

Details

Check Text ( C-41668r3_chk )
Obtain the Email Domain Security Plan (EDSP) and locate the global maximum message receive size and if signoff with risk acceptance is documented for the receive connector to have a different value. Open the Exchange Management Shell and enter the following command: Get-ReceiveConnector \| Select Name, Identity, MaxMessageSize Identify Internet-facing connectors on the Edge Transport server. If 'MaxMessageSize' is set to a numeric value different from the global value, and has signoff and risk acceptance in the EDSP, this is not a finding. If the value of ‘MaxMessageSize' is not the same as the global value, this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-41668r3_chk )

Obtain the Email Domain Security Plan (EDSP) and locate the global maximum message receive size and if signoff with risk acceptance is documented for the receive connector to have a different value.

Open the Exchange Management Shell and enter the following command:
Get-ReceiveConnector | Select Name, Identity, MaxMessageSize

Identify Internet-facing connectors on the Edge Transport server.

If 'MaxMessageSize' is set to a numeric value different from the global value, and has signoff and risk acceptance in the EDSP, this is not a finding.

If the value of ‘MaxMessageSize' is not the same as the global value, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-37453r3_fix)
Open the Exchange Management Shell and enter the following command: Set-ReceiveConnector -Identity <'ReceiveConnector'> -MaxMessageSize If an alternate value is desired from the global value MaxReceiveSize, obtain signoff with risk acceptance and document in the EDSP.