diff --git a/public/index.php b/public/index.php
index e55329771d..ada1548425 100755
--- a/public/index.php
+++ b/public/index.php
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ declare(strict_types = 1);
 
 use App\CacheKernel;
 use App\Kernel;
-use App\Util\Formatting;
+use App\Core\Security;
 use Symfony\Component\ErrorHandler\Debug;
 use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
 
@@ -70,11 +70,9 @@ if ('prod' === $kernel->getEnvironment() || isset($_ENV['CONFIG_USE_CACHE_KERNEL
 }
 
 $request = Request::createFromGlobals();
-$_ENV    = array_filter(
-    $_ENV,
-    fn (string $key) => Formatting::startsWith($key, ['HTTP', 'APP', 'CONFIG']) && $key !== 'APP_SECRET',
-    \ARRAY_FILTER_USE_KEY,
-);
+
+Security::harden();
+
 $response = $kernel->handle($request);
 $response->send();
 $kernel->terminate($request, $response);
diff --git a/src/Core/GNUsocial.php b/src/Core/GNUsocial.php
index 89baa35e47..34e7dca533 100644
--- a/src/Core/GNUsocial.php
+++ b/src/Core/GNUsocial.php
@@ -37,8 +37,9 @@ declare(strict_types = 1);
  * @author    Diogo Cordeiro <diogo@fc.up.pt>
  *
  * GNU social 3
+ * @author    Diogo Cordeiro <mail@diogo.site>
  * @author    Hugo Sales <hugo@hsal.es>
- * @copyright 2018-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc http://www.fsf.org
+ * @copyright 2018-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc http://www.fsf.org
  * @license   https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html GNU AGPL v3 or later
  */
 
diff --git a/src/Core/Security.php b/src/Core/Security.php
index d05da28beb..7f3d53f879 100644
--- a/src/Core/Security.php
+++ b/src/Core/Security.php
@@ -33,7 +33,10 @@ declare(strict_types = 1);
 namespace App\Core;
 
 use App\Entity\LocalUser;
+use App\Util\Common;
+use App\Util\Formatting;
 use BadMethodCallException;
+use Functional as F;
 use Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\EventSubscriberInterface;
 use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Security as SymfonySecurity;
 use Symfony\Component\Security\Http\Event\LoginFailureEvent;
@@ -76,6 +79,32 @@ class Security implements EventSubscriberInterface //implements AuthenticatorInt
         ];
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Harden running instance. Called once from `index.php`
+     */
+    public static function harden(): void
+    {
+        // Remove sensitive information from the
+        [$_ENV, $to_remove] = F\partition(
+            $_ENV,
+            fn ($_, string $key) => Formatting::startsWith($key, ['HTTP', 'APP', 'CONFIG']) && $key !== 'APP_SECRET',
+        );
+        F\each($to_remove, fn (mixed $value, string $key) => putenv($key)); // Unset
+        // Disable stream wrappers, that could be used in things like
+        // `file_get_contents('https://gnu.org')`. This is done
+        // because this is a unexpected feature for most developers,
+        // and some wrappers can be abused. For instance, `phar://`
+        // can be used to essentially override any class when such a
+        // file is opened and thus provide code execution to an
+        // attacker. Not a complete solution, since `file://`,
+        // `php://` and `glob://` get used _somewhere_, so we can't
+        // disable them
+        F\each(
+            ['http', 'https', 'ftp', 'ftps', 'compress.zlib', 'data', 'phar'], // Making this configurable might be a nice feature, but it's tricky because this happens before general initialization
+            fn (string $protocol) => \stream_wrapper_unregister($protocol)
+        );;
+    }
+
     public static function __callStatic(string $name, array $args)
     {
         if (method_exists(self::$security, $name)) {