STIGUI
V-259705CAT II — Medium severitySV-259705r961620_rule

Exchange must not send delivery reports to remote domains.

Rule version EX19-MB-000230 · STIG v2 · 2025-05-14

Discussion

Attackers can use automated messages to determine whether a user account is active, in the office, traveling, and so on. An attacker might use this information to conduct future attacks. Ensure that delivery reports to remote domains are disabled. Before enabling this setting, first configure a remote domain using the Exchange Management Console (EMC) or the New-RemoteDomain cmdlet.

Check

Open the Exchange Management Shell and enter the following command:

Get-RemoteDomain | Select-Object -Property Identity, DeliveryReportEnabled

If the value of "DeliveryReportEnabled" is not set to "False", this is a finding.

Fix

Open the Exchange Management Shell and enter the following command:

Set-RemoteDomain -Identity <'IdentityName'> -DeliveryReportEnabled $false

Note: The <IdentityName> value must be in quotes.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-259705
Group title
SRG-APP-000435
Rule ID
SV-259705r961620_rule
Check ID
C-63444r942427_chk
Fix ID
F-63352r942428_fix