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actuator/health

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What is this endpoint?

actuator/health

Spring Boot Actuator

What an attacker could do

Confirms a Spring Boot app and, if other actuator endpoints (env, heapdump, mappings) are unsecured, can leak environment variables, credentials, and full heap memory dumps enabling deeper compromise.

How to defend it

Restrict actuator endpoints with Spring Security, expose only /health with management.endpoints.web.exposure.include limited explicitly, and bind the management port to an internal interface.

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