Hardcoded Secrets Report: 154 Repositories Affected

50.7% of analyzed repositories contain hardcoded secrets. This report examines 664 secret findings across 154 repositories.

Methodology: Analysis performed using Repobility’s proprietary multi-dimensional scanning engine.

Key Metrics

  • Total secret findings: 664
  • Repositories affected: 154 of 304 (50.7%)
  • In production code: 617 (92.9%)
  • In test code: 47 (7.1%)
  • Resolved: 533 (80.3%)
  • Unresolved: 131 (19.7%)

Severity Distribution

Severity Count Percentage
Info 373 56.2%
High 125 18.8%
Critical 93 14.0%
Medium 59 8.9%
Low 14 2.1%

Remediation Priorities

  1. Rotate all exposed credentials immediately — treat any secret found in source code as compromised.
  2. Migrate to secret managers — HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, or GCP Secret Manager.
  3. Implement pre-commit hooks to prevent new secrets from entering VCS.
  4. Purge git history using git filter-repo for any previously committed secrets.
  5. Enable CI/CD scanning to catch secrets in pull requests.

Data sourced from Repobility’s continuous code intelligence platform analyzing 128,000+ repositories. Updated May 16, 2026.