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What is this endpoint?

actuator/loggers

Spring Boot Actuator loggers endpoint for viewing and changing log levels at runtime

What an attacker could do

Write access to this endpoint lets an attacker change log levels at runtime, enabling DEBUG/TRACE logging that can expose request bodies, tokens, and SQL, or be used to exhaust disk and degrade the service.

How to defend it

Do not expose the loggers endpoint publicly; require authentication on the Actuator management context, exclude it from web exposure, and restrict POST access so log configuration cannot be altered by anonymous users.

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