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
- Rotate all exposed credentials immediately — treat any secret found in source code as compromised.
- Migrate to secret managers — HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, or GCP Secret Manager.
- Implement pre-commit hooks to prevent new secrets from entering VCS.
- Purge git history using
git filter-repofor any previously committed secrets. - 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.