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Downloading an Application's Entire Source Code Through an Exposed GIT Directory
Blog February 19, 2016

Downloading an Application's Entire Source Code Through an Exposed GIT Directory

Website administrators sometimes inadvertently leave an exposed .git directory, from which it is possible to download the entire source code of the web application using just wget and a common server misconfiguration.