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On one of my web applications, I accidentally left the .git directory readable by the web server for the last few weeks. Index listing was disabled. Visiting the website.com/.git URL would result in a 404 error that was indistinguishable from any other 404 error, but browsing to website.com/.git/config for example would download the file.

What kind of risks are there with my applications? Is it possible that enough information is exposed that someone could have downloaded the entire application's source code?

Thomas Hunter II
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Yes, it's possible to download the entire repository contents (including history) – a simple git clone would do it. However, this assumes someone knew about the existence of that .git directory...it's more likely that nobody has even noticed it. You can always check your web server's logs to be sure.

grawity
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A simple git clone on the document root is not entirely accurate. Cloning an exposed GIT repository is not possible with "dumb" servers, such as an accidental exposure of .git via HTTP, unless git update-server-info is executed on the server. While some of the metadata is available, obtaining the contents of the .git/objects directory (aka the juicy stuff) is not always possible. It is possible to recover objects that aren't packed. Should not be the case with a working copy/repository on a production server.

It's a different story for a development machine with committed changes that aren't pushed to a remote. In this case, the garbage collector is not usually called, unless you invoke git gc, hence the files aren't part of packfiles, yet. You may recover via HTTP the files which are committed since the last push.

update-server-info basically creates a map of the refs (.git/info/refs) and of the packfiles (.git/objects/info/packs). While .git/packed-refs may be used to substitute the first, obtaining the packfiles isn't possible without having the directory index enabled or actually brute-forcing SHA-1's (which is a bad idea from the start).

SaltwaterC
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