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See how leaving old, undocumented, or beta API endpoints running in production gives attackers a backdoor past all your modern security controls.
Imagine installing a state-of-the-art retinal scanner on the front door of your office, but forgetting you left the old, rusty backdoor wide open from when the building was first constructed. In APIs, Improper Inventory Management (often called Shadow APIs or Zombie APIs) happens when development teams deploy new, secure versions of an API (like v3), but leave the old, vulnerable versions (like v1) or undocumented testing endpoints running on the same server.
Real attacks exploit the forgotten paths. Attackers know your v3 login is locked down with MFA and rate limiting, so they simply change the URL to /api/v1/login to bypass all of it and brute-force the old, unprotected endpoint.
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