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detecting-debug-endpoints
Probe a target for accidentally-public admin / debug / introspection endpoints — Spring Boot Actuator, Apache server-status, Prometheus metrics, GraphQL playground, Swagger UI, phpMyAdmin, JMX-over-HTTP (Jolokia), Elasticsearch _cat, Kibana / Grafana / Eureka / Consul panels. Use when: post-deploy verification, security audit before SOC2, inheriting a system you didn't build, or a bug bounty hints at an exposed introspection panel. Threshold: any of the canonical 40+ admin/debug paths returns 200, 302 to a login, or framework-specific JSON shape (e.g., Actuator returning a _links object, server-status HTML body containing the Apache Server Status title). Trigger with: "check debug endpoints", "actuator exposure", "admin panel scan", "graphql playground check".
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# Detecting Debug Endpoints
## Overview
Modern web stacks ship rich introspection by default. Spring Boot
Actuator exposes `/actuator/env` (every environment variable),
`/actuator/heapdump` (a live heap snapshot that contains credentials),
`/actuator/jolokia` (JMX bean invocation = pre-auth RCE in some
configurations). Apache `mod_status` exposes `/server-status` with
internal IPs, request counts, and the URL of every active request.
Prometheus `/metrics` exposes operational telemetry that often
includes connection-string-bearing labels by accident. phpMyAdmin
exposes the entire database if unauthenticated.
