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What is this endpoint?
local/local.yml
Ansible
What an attacker could do
An exposed Ansible playbook can reveal inventory hosts, task logic, file paths, and any inline variables or vault references, disclosing infrastructure layout and sometimes hardcoded secrets used for provisioning. This gives an attacker a blueprint of the deployment and privileged hosts.
How to defend it
Keep Ansible playbooks and inventories out of any web-served directory, store secrets in Ansible Vault rather than inline, and restrict repository access so deployment automation is never publicly reachable.
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