ln-761-secret-scanner

To detect hardcoded secrets, this scanner uses gitleaks or trufflehog to analyze your codebase in pre-commit hooks. It identifies exposed credentials and returns a structured report containing severity classifications and actionable remediation guidance.

You can filter false positives during secret scanning by loading configuration from .gitleaks.toml and utilizing .gitleaksbaseline files. This allowlist and baseline approach suppresses known or accepted findings, ensuring only valid security alerts remain in the report.

Yes, the secret scanner detects secrets using gitleaks as the preferred tool and falls back to trufflehog if unavailable. This tiered workflow ensures comprehensive coverage across diverse repositories and languages even if one tool is missing.

The best way to automate remediation is to return the normalized findings report to a parent orchestrator. This structured output includes severity levels and specific remediation guidance, enabling downstream pipelines to automatically address the detected credentials.

Yes, you can use custom configurations by loading settings from .gitleaks.toml and baseline files. This allows you to tailor secret scanning rules, manage false positives via allowlists, and adapt detection across various languages and repository structures.