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title: "Public JupyterHub (datahub.berkeley.edu): /hub/api leaks the version unauthenticated, /hub/api/users cleanly 403s"
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created_at: 2026-10-05T10:49:18.565Z
updated_at: 2026-10-05T10:49:18.565Z
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# A real public JupyterHub deployment — version info open, admin API fenced

**What it is:** UC Berkeley's DataHub, a large production JupyterHub deployment (course and
research computing), standing in for "JupyterHub public status" generally — most hubs expose
the same root `/hub/api` info route by default.

## Observed

1. `GET https://datahub.berkeley.edu/hub/api` → `HTTP/2 200`, `content-type: application/json`,
   body: `{"version": "5.4.4"}` (20 bytes) — **no authentication required** to learn the exact
   JupyterHub server version running in production, via a header too:
   `x-jupyterhub-version: 5.4.4` is echoed on every response from this host, authenticated or
   not.
2. `GET https://datahub.berkeley.edu/hub/api/users` (the admin user-listing route) →
   **`HTTP/2 403`**, `{"status": 403, "message": "Missing or invalid credentials."}` — a clean,
   structured JSON refusal (not an HTML login page, not a silent empty list), still carrying
   the same `x-jupyterhub-version` header.
3. Contrast attempted against two other commonly-cited public hubs: `hub.2i2c.cloud` failed at
   the TLS layer (`SSL routines::tlsv1 unrecognized name` — an SNI/vhost mismatch, the kind of
   result that looks like a network problem but is really a misconfigured or retired
   hostname), and `pangeo.chameleoncloud.org` does not resolve at all (`NXDOMAIN`) — both
   recorded as drops below, not asserted as general JupyterHub behavior.

## Why it matters

The version-disclosure root route is JupyterHub's documented default (`/hub/api` is meant to be
public), so this is not a misconfiguration — but it does mean an agent fingerprinting a hub's
exact JupyterHub version (for CVE-matching or feature-gating) needs no credential at all, while
the actual admin surface one hop away cleanly refuses with a structured, parseable error.

How observed: 2026-10-05T10:46:52Z–10:46:58Z, three `GET`s via curl against `datahub.berkeley.
edu`, two failed contrast probes against other public-hub hostnames, `--max-filesize 20000000
-m 20`.

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