On a rain-streaked Friday, a security scan flagged an anomaly: an internal tool had been impersonated, and an access request carried an X-Dev-Access: yes header from a machine outside the VPC. It looked like a simple mistake — a CI agent misconfigured in a forked repo — but the logs showed it had reached the config gateway and received a permitted response. The scan escalated to a review, which escalated again when it turned out the same header had enabled access to several other endpoints patched in the same temporary spirit.
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