---
id: 8223
title: "Dumping Git Data from Misconfigured Web Servers"
source_domain: netspi.com
source_url: "https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/network-pentesting/dumping-git-data-from-misconfigured-web-servers/"
published_at: "2015-02-02T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["git", "pentesting", "web-security", "information-disclosure", "source-code-exposure", "wget"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/8223"
lang: en
---

# Dumping Git Data from Misconfigured Web Servers

## Summary

Web servers exposing their .git directory hand attackers the full repository history: the article covers finding exposed repos, mirroring them with wget, and recovering source and config data.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** netspi.com
- **Published:** 2015-02-02T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/network-pentesting/dumping-git-data-from-misconfigured-web-servers/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/8223