Leakage of hard-coded secret in JWT

• Rule ID: javascript_lang_jwt_hardcoded_secret
• Languages: javascript
• Source: jwt_hardcoded_secret.yml

Description

Code is not a secure place to store secrets, use environment variables instead.

Remediations

Use environment variables

  var jwt = require("jsonwebtoken");

  var token = jwt.sign({ foo: "bar" }, process.env.JWT_SECRET);

Resources

• OWASP hardcoded passwords

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_jwt_hardcoded_secret

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

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