CORS for Spring Boot
medium4 checks
CORS decides which origins may read your API responses. A wildcard turns an authenticated API into a public one.
What Spring Boot must have
- Access-Control-Allow-Origin limited to known origins
- No wildcard combined with credentials
- No reflection of arbitrary Origin headers
- Preflight responses only allow the methods actually used
How to fix it
- 1Replace wildcards with an explicit allowlist
- 2Validate Origin before echoing it and reject unknown origins early
Spring Boot context
Java application framework with auto-configuration and embedded servers.
Actuator endpoints leak heap dumps and environment variables when exposed; restrict /actuator.