Drawing little attention to themselves, multiple threat actors have spent the past two-three years mass-scanning the internet for ENV files that have been accidentally uploaded and left exposed on ...

Environment variables exposed due to misconfiguration Multiple web development frameworks and web applications store important configuration data inside .env files.

How to pass variables with an .env file One of the problems with passing environment variables as described above is that they live on in memory (until you unset them with the unset command).