Message size restrictions must be controlled on Send connectors.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-33587	Exch-2-757	SV-44007r3_rule		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 a send connector. 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 a send connector. 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
MS Exchange 2010 Edge Transport Server STIG	2018-09-17

Details

Check Text ( C-41694r5_chk )
Obtain the Email Domain Security Plan (EDSP) and locate the global maximum message send 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-SendConnector \| Select Identity, MaxMessageSize or Get-TransportConfig \| Select Identity, MaxSendSize 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-41694r5_chk )

Obtain the Email Domain Security Plan (EDSP) and locate the global maximum message send 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-SendConnector | Select Identity, MaxMessageSize

or

Get-TransportConfig | Select Identity, MaxSendSize

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-37478r3_fix)
Open the Exchange Management Shell and enter the following command: Set-SendConnector -Identity <'SendConnector'> -MaxMessageSize If an alternate value is desired from the global value MaxSendSize, obtain signoff with risk acceptance and document in the EDSP.