Spring Boot Misconfiguration: Developer tools enabled on production

Severity: Medium
Summary#

Invicti detected that the web application is running with spring-boot-devtools enabled. Spring Boot includes an additional set of tools that can make the application development experience a little more pleasant. The spring-boot-devtools module can be included in any project to provide additional development-time features.

Impact#

Enabling spring-boot-devtools on a remote application is a security risk. You should never enable support on a production deployment.

Actions To Take#

It's recommended to disable spring-boot-devtools. This can be done by removing the spring-boot-devtools dependency from your build automation tool configuration file.

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