Hardcoded secret detected

• Rule ID: javascript_lang_hardcoded_secret
• Languages: javascript
• Source: hardcoded_secret.yml

Description

Code is not a safe place to store secrets. Use environment variables or a secret management system instead.

Remediations

❌ Do not store plaintext secrets in your code

  passport.use(new OAuth2Strategy({
      authorizationURL: 'https://www.example.com/oauth2/authorize',
      tokenURL: 'https://www.example.com/oauth2/token',
      clientID: 'my-id-123',
      clientSecret: 'shh-my-secret',
      callbackURL: 'http://localhost:3000/auth/example/callback'
    },
    function(accessToken, refreshToken, profile, cb) {
      User.findOrCreate({ exampleId: profile.id }, function (err, user) {
        return cb(err, user);
      });
    }
  ));

✅ Use environment variables

  passport.use(new OAuth2Strategy({
      authorizationURL: 'https://www.example.com/oauth2/authorize',
      tokenURL: 'https://www.example.com/oauth2/token',
      clientID:  process.env.CLIENT_ID,
      clientSecret: process.env.CLIENT_SECRET,
      callbackURL: 'http://localhost:3000/auth/example/callback'
    },
    function(accessToken, refreshToken, profile, cb) {
      User.findOrCreate({ exampleId: profile.id }, function (err, user) {
        return cb(err, user);
      });
    }
  ));

✅ Use a secret management system or even better, a key management service (KMS) with encryption, to manage and access your secrets

Resources

• OWASP hardcoded passwords
• Google Cloud Key Management Service
• AWS Key Management Service

Associated CWE

• CWE-798: Use of Hard-coded Credentials

OWASP Top 10

• A07:2021 - Identification and Authentication Failures

Configuration

To skip this rule during a scan, use the following flag

bearer scan /path/to/your-project/ --skip-rule=javascript_lang_hardcoded_secret

To run only this rule during a scan, use the following flag

bearer scan /path/to/your-project/ --only-rule=javascript_lang_hardcoded_secret