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What is this endpoint?

.well-known/openid-configuration

OpenID Connect Configuration Document

What an attacker could do

This discovery document publicly maps every OIDC endpoint, supported flows, and signing keys, giving an attacker a complete blueprint of the identity provider to find weak grant types or algorithms.

How to defend it

Exposure of this document is expected by design; harden the underlying endpoints by disabling weak flows and algorithms, and ensure jwks_uri serves only current signing keys.

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