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What is this endpoint?

certificate.pem

SSL Certificate

What an attacker could do

While the public certificate itself is not secret, its exposure in the web root fingerprints the server, reveals issuer/SAN details and expiry, and signals that the matching private key may sit nearby.

How to defend it

Serve certificates only through the TLS stack, not as downloadable files, and ensure the private key is stored separately outside the document root.

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