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What is this endpoint?

argocd/api/v1/applications

ArgoCD Applications API

What an attacker could do

Access to the ArgoCD applications API exposes Git repo URLs, cluster targets, and sync state, and with write access an attacker can point an app at a malicious manifest source to deploy arbitrary workloads cluster-wide.

How to defend it

Disable the anonymous account, enforce SSO and project-scoped RBAC, and keep the ArgoCD API server off the public internet behind a VPN or authenticated ingress.

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