🗄️ Secrets Patterns Database 🗄️

The largest open-source database for detecting secrets, API keys, passwords, tokens, and more. Use secrets-patterns-db to feed your secret scanning engine with regex patterns for identifying secrets.

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🚀 Features

• Over 1600 regular expressions for detecting secrets, passwords, API keys, tokens, and more.
• Format agnostic. A Single format that supports secret detection tools, including Trufflehog and Gitleaks.
• Tested and reviewed Regular expressions.
• Categorized by confidence levels of each pattern.
• All regular expressions are tested against ReDos attacks.

❔ Why?

There are limited resources online for Regular Expressions patterns for secrets. TruffleHog offers ~700 as built-in rules. GitLeaks offers ~60 rules. While it's a good start, it's not enough. There's a lot of work that needs to be done for maintenance and keeping up with new secrets patterns.

I have collected and curated Regular Expressions Patterns for Secrets, API Tokens, Keys, and Passwords. I'm open-sourcing the database I built (Secrets-Patterns-DB), and hope that security teams contribute to it!

The Secrets-Patterns-DB contains over 1600 Regular Expressions. I have also written scripts to validate Regexes against ReDoS attacks, and CI jobs to load and validate Regexes, and I also manually cleaned-up invalid ones.

It's in Beta. There’s a lot of room for improvement on the project. I'm looking forward to your Pull Requests and Issues on Github to enhance Secrets-Patterns-DB for everyone.

Are you planning to enhance your secrets detection in your AppSec program? Please take some time to contribute to the project! 🙏

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💻 Contribution

Contribution is always welcome! Please feel free to report issues on Github and create Pull Requestss for new features.

📌 Ideas to Start on

Using

For Trufflehog v2

./scripts/convert-rules.py --db ./db/rules-stable.yml --type trufflehogv2

For Trufflehog v3

./scripts/convert-rules.py --db ./db/rules-stable.yml --type trufflehogv3

For Gitleaks

./scripts/convert-rules.py --db ./db/rules-stable.yml --type  gitleaks

Optional: --export - Set filename, extension will be added by type (gitleaks = toml, trufflehogV2 = json, trufflehogV3 = yaml)

Would like to contribute to secrets-patterns-db? Here are some ideas that you may start with:

• Support severity
• Categorize patterns by type?
• Categorize patterns by tags?
• Support more tools?

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📄 License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Trufflehog data is licensed under the AGPL.

💚 Author

Mazin Ahmed

• Website: https://mazinahmed.net
• Email: mazin [at] mazinahmed [dot] net
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/mazen160
• Linkedin: http://linkedin.com/in/infosecmazinahmed