SecretScanner is an open-source tool for discovering passwords, API, tokens
SecretScanner is an open-source tool designed to detect unprotected secrets in container images and file systems. It helps users identify sensitive data such as passwords and API keys that may be inadvertently exposed due to security flaws. The tool is integrated into ThreatMapper, which assesses vulnerabilities in cloud-native applications.
- ▪SecretScanner retrieves and searches container and host filesystems for sensitive data.
- ▪It matches contents against a database of approximately 140 secret types.
- ▪The tool outputs a JSON file detailing all secrets found during the scan.
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Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/deepfence/SecretScanner |
| Publication time | Thu, 21 May 2026 00:12:21 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-21T00:35:03.181Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-21T00:35:03.181Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 5FiAis0wlxAO |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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SecretScanner SecretScanner Deepfence SecretScanner can find unprotected secrets in container images or file systems. SecretScanner is a standalone tool that retrieves and searches container and host filesystems, matching the contents against a database of approximately 140 secret types. SecretScanner is also included in ThreatMapper, an open source scanner that identifies vulnerable dependencies and unprotected secrets in cloud native applications, and ranks these vulnerabilities based on their risk-of-exploit (example) What are Secrets? Secrets are any kind of sensitive or private data which gives authorized users permission to access critical IT infrastructure (such as accounts, devices, network, cloud based services), applications, storage, databases and other kinds of critical data…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.