Use of Hard-coded Credentials

Property	Value
Language	generic
Severity
CWE	CWE-798: Use of Hard-coded Credentials
OWASP	A07:2021 - Identification and Authentication Failures
Confidence Level	Low
Impact Level	High
Likelihood Level	Low

Description

A secret is hard-coded in the application. Secrets stored in source code, such as credentials, identifiers, and other types of sensitive data, can be leaked and used by internal or external malicious actors. It is recommended to rotate the secret and retrieve them from a secure secret vault or Hardware Security Module (HSM), alternatively environment variables can be used if allowed by your company policy.