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You will hopefully find this site is well-secured and I'm not interested in being hacked. I'm interested in learning about how people try to hack me, though.

What is this endpoint?

.git/HEAD

Git repository

What an attacker could do

A readable .git directory lets an attacker reconstruct the full source repository and its history, exposing application logic, hardcoded credentials, and secrets committed in past versions.

How to defend it

Deny access to .git directories at the web server, deploy from a build artifact rather than a working git clone, and purge any secrets found in history while rotating them.

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