Exchange Send Fatal Errors to Microsoft must be disabled.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-80505	EX16-ED-000110	SV-95215r1_rule		Medium

Description
It is detrimental for applications to provide, or install by default, functionality exceeding requirements or mission objectives. These unnecessary capabilities or services are often overlooked and therefore may remain unsecured. They increase the risk to the platform by providing additional attack vectors. Applications are capable of providing a wide variety of functions and services. Some of the functions and services, provided by default, may not be necessary to support essential organizational operations (e.g., key missions, functions). Examples of non-essential capabilities include, but are not limited to, advertising software or browser plug-ins not related to requirements or providing a wide array of functionality not required for every mission, but cannot be disabled. Customer Experience reports in Exchange will result in outbound traffic that may be identified by an eavesdropper. For this reason, the Customer Experience reports to Microsoft must not be sent.

Description

It is detrimental for applications to provide, or install by default, functionality exceeding requirements or mission objectives. These unnecessary capabilities or services are often overlooked and therefore may remain unsecured. They increase the risk to the platform by providing additional attack vectors. Applications are capable of providing a wide variety of functions and services. Some of the functions and services, provided by default, may not be necessary to support essential organizational operations (e.g., key missions, functions). Examples of non-essential capabilities include, but are not limited to, advertising software or browser plug-ins not related to requirements or providing a wide array of functionality not required for every mission, but cannot be disabled. Customer Experience reports in Exchange will result in outbound traffic that may be identified by an eavesdropper. For this reason, the Customer Experience reports to Microsoft must not be sent.

STIG	Date
Microsoft Exchange 2016 Edge Transport Server Security Technical Implementation Guide	2018-08-28

Details

Check Text ( C-80237r1_chk )
Open the Exchange Management Shell and enter the following command: Get-ExchangeServer –status \| Select Name, Identity, ErrorReportingEnabled For each exchange server, if the value of "ErrorReportingEnabled" is not set to "False", this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-87357r1_fix)
Open the Exchange Management Shell and enter the following command: Set-ExchangeServer -Identity <'IdentityName'> -ErrorReportingEnabled $false Note: The value must be in single quotes. Repeat the procedure for each Identity.