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inventory.ini

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What is this endpoint?

inventory.ini

Ansible Inventory File

What an attacker could do

An Ansible inventory exposes hostnames, IP addresses, SSH users, and group structure for managed infrastructure, giving an attacker a precise target list and sometimes connection parameters.

How to defend it

Do not serve inventory files over HTTP, keep them in restricted repos, and avoid embedding credentials or ports as inventory variables.

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