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Thanks to WebRTC, it's even easier - you can enumerate all local IP addresses and then you only have to scan one or two subnets.

Local VMs are definitely vulnerable to this as well.

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Not if you actually work in the VM, and do not expose database ports to the host (why in hell would you do this anyway). No amount of ip scanning is going to open ports.

> why in hell would you do this anyway

Integration with IDEs.

> Integration with IDEs.

That's a fair point, but Rsync or shared folders should have you covered for this.

Actually I meant something like how Intellij has DB integration, so you could put in your host & port and connect to the DB to help you write queries etc.

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