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.gitlab-ci.yml

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What is this endpoint?

.gitlab-ci.yml

GitLab CI/CD pipeline configuration file

What an attacker could do

Reveals the full CI/CD pipeline including build/deploy commands, runner tags, container images, and references to CI/CD variables, helping an attacker map the deployment chain and target the GitLab runner environment.

How to defend it

Serve application code from a directory that excludes repository metadata, deny access to dotfiles via web-server rules, and keep credentials in masked/protected GitLab CI/CD variables.

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