I've been thinking a lot about where API security problems actually get introduced, and it seems like most of them are baked into the spec before anyone writes a line of code. Missing auth on an endpoint, a sequential ID in a path, a sensitive field in a response schema these are all decisions made in the OpenAPI file.
But fixing them at the spec stage is harder than it sounds. The spec tells you what the API should do, not how it's actually implemented. A missing security block might be a real gap, or it might be handled by a gateway that isn't documented. A sequential ID might be fine if authorization is enforced elsewhere. So you end up with a list of findings and no clear way to know which ones are real problems versus which ones are just incomplete documentation.
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