About secret scanning patterns
GitHub maintains these different sets of default secret scanning patterns:
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Partner patterns. Used to detect potential secrets in all public repositories as well as public npm packages. To find out about our partner program, see "Secret scanning partner program."
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User alert patterns. Used to detect potential secrets in public repositories with secret scanning alerts for users enabled.
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Push protection patterns. Used to detect potential secrets in repositories with secret scanning as a push protection enabled.
Owners of public repositories, as well as organizations using GitHub Enterprise Cloud with GitHub Advanced Security, can enable secret scanning alerts for users on their repositories.
For details about all the supported patterns, see the "Supported secrets" section below.
If you believe that secret scanning should have detected a secret committed to your repository, and it has not, you first need to check that GitHub supports your secret. For more information, refer to the sections below. For more advanced troubleshooting information, see "Troubleshooting secret scanning."
About partner alerts
Partner alerts are alerts that are sent to the secret providers whenever a secret leak is reported for one of their secrets. GitHub currently scans public repositories and public npm packages for secrets issued by specific service providers and alerts the relevant service provider whenever a secret is detected in a commit. For more information about secret scanning alerts for partners, see "About secret scanning."
If access to a resource requires paired credentials, then secret scanning will create an alert only when both parts of the pair are detected in the same file. This ensures that the most critical leaks are not hidden behind information about partial leaks. Pair matching also helps reduce false positives since both elements of a pair must be used together to access the provider's resource.
About user alerts
User alerts are alerts that are reported to users on GitHub. When secret scanning alerts for users are enabled, GitHub scans repositories for secrets issued by a large variety of service providers and generates secret scanning alerts.
You can see these alerts on the Security tab of the repository. For more information about secret scanning alerts for users, see "About secret scanning."
If access to a resource requires paired credentials, then secret scanning will create an alert only when both parts of the pair are detected in the same file. This ensures that the most critical leaks are not hidden behind information about partial leaks. Pair matching also helps reduce false positives since both elements of a pair must be used together to access the provider's resource.
If you use the REST API for secret scanning, you can use the Secret type to report on secrets from specific issuers. For more information, see "Secret scanning."
About push protection alerts
Push protection alerts are user alerts that are reported by push protection. Secret scanning as a push protection currently scans repositories for secrets issued by some service providers.
Push protection alerts are not created for secrets that are bypassed with user-based push protection only. For more information, see "Push protection for users."
If access to a resource requires paired credentials, then secret scanning will create an alert only when both parts of the pair are detected in the same file. This ensures that the most critical leaks are not hidden behind information about partial leaks. Pair matching also helps reduce false positives since both elements of a pair must be used together to access the provider's resource.
Older versions of certain tokens may not be supported by push protection as these tokens may generate a higher number of false positives than their most recent version. Push protection may also not apply to legacy tokens. For tokens such as Azure Storage Keys, GitHub only supports recently created tokens, not tokens that match the legacy patterns. For more information about push protection limitations, see "Troubleshooting secret scanning."
Supported secrets
This table lists the secrets supported by secret scanning. You can see the types of alert that get generated for each token, as well as whether a validity check is performed on the token.
- Provider—name of the token provider.
- Partner—token for which leaks are reported to the relevant token partner. Applies to public repositories only.
- User—token for which leaks are reported to users on GitHub. Applies to public repositories, and to private repositories where GitHub Advanced Security is enabled.
- Push protection—token for which leaks are reported to users on GitHub. Applies to repositories with secret scanning and push protection enabled.
- Validity check—token for which a validity check is implemented. Currently only applies to GitHub tokens.
| Provider | Token | Partner | User | Push protection | Validity check |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adafruit IO | adafruit_io_key | ||||
| Adobe | adobe_client_secret | ||||
| Adobe | adobe_device_token | ||||
| Adobe | adobe_pac_token | ||||
| Adobe | adobe_refresh_token | ||||
| Adobe | adobe_service_token | ||||
| Adobe | adobe_short_lived_access_token | ||||
| Aiven | aiven_auth_token | ||||
| Aiven | aiven_service_password | ||||
| Alibaba Cloud | alibaba_cloud_access_key_id alibaba_cloud_access_key_secret | ||||
| Login with Amazon | amazon_oauth_client_id amazon_oauth_client_secret | ||||
| Amazon Web Services (AWS) | aws_access_key_id aws_secret_access_key | ||||
| Amazon Web Services (AWS) | aws_session_token aws_temporary_access_key_id aws_secret_access_key | ||||
| Asana | asana_personal_access_token | ||||
| Atlassian | atlassian_api_token | ||||
| Atlassian | atlassian_jwt | ||||
| Atlassian | bitbucket_server_personal_access_token | ||||
| Azure | azure_active_directory_application_secret | ||||
| Azure | azure_batch_key_identifiable | ||||
| Azure | azure_cache_for_redis_access_key | ||||
| Azure | azure_container_registry_key_identifiable | ||||
| Azure | azure_cosmosdb_key_identifiable | ||||
| Azure | azure_devops_personal_access_token | ||||
| Azure | azure_function_key | ||||
| Azure | azure_ml_web_service_classic_identifiable_key | ||||
| Azure | azure_sas_token | ||||
| Azure | azure_search_admin_key | ||||
| Azure | azure_search_query_key | ||||
| Azure | azure_management_certificate | ||||
| Azure | azure_sql_connection_string | ||||
| Azure | azure_sql_password | ||||
| Azure | azure_storage_account_key | ||||
| Beamer | beamer_api_key | ||||
| Canadian Digital Service | cds_canada_notify_api_key | ||||
| Checkout.com | checkout_production_secret_key | ||||
| Checkout.com | checkout_test_secret_key | ||||
| Chief Tools | chief_tools_token | ||||
| Clojars | clojars_deploy_token | ||||
| CloudBees CodeShip | codeship_credential | ||||
| Contentful | contentful_personal_access_token | ||||
| Contributed Systems | CONTRIBUTED_SYSTEMS_CREDENTIALS | ||||
| crates.io (Rust Foundation) | cratesio_api_token | ||||
| Databricks | databricks_access_token | ||||
| Datadog | DATADOG_API_KEY | ||||
| Defined | defined_networking_nebula_api_key | ||||
| DevCycle | devcycle_client_api_key | ||||
| DevCycle | devcycle_mobile_api_key | ||||
| DevCycle | devcycle_server_api_key | ||||
| DigitalOcean | digitalocean_oauth_token | ||||
| DigitalOcean | digitalocean_personal_access_token | ||||
| DigitalOcean | digitalocean_refresh_token | ||||
| DigitalOcean | digitalocean_system_token | ||||
| Discord | discord_api_token_v2 | ||||
| Discord | discord_bot_token | ||||
| Doppler | doppler_audit_token | ||||
| Doppler | doppler_cli_token | ||||
| Doppler | doppler_personal_token | ||||
| Doppler | doppler_scim_token | ||||
| Doppler | doppler_service_token | ||||
| Doppler | doppler_service_account_token | ||||
| Dropbox | dropbox_access_token | ||||
| Dropbox | dropbox_short_lived_access_token | ||||
| Duffel | duffel_live_access_token | ||||
| Duffel | duffel_test_access_token | ||||
| Dynatrace | dynatrace_access_token | ||||
| Dynatrace | dynatrace_internal_token | ||||
| EasyPost | easypost_production_api_key | ||||
| EasyPost | easypost_test_api_key | ||||
| eBay | ebay_production_client_id ebay_production_client_secret | ||||
| eBay | ebay_sandbox_client_id ebay_sandbox_client_secret | ||||
| Fastly | fastly_api_token | ||||
| Figma | figma_pat | ||||
| Finicity | finicity_app_key | ||||
| Flutterwave | flutterwave_live_api_secret_key | ||||
| Flutterwave | flutterwave_test_api_secret_key | ||||
| Frame.io | frameio_developer_token | ||||
| Frame.io | frameio_jwt | ||||
| FullStory | fullstory_api_key | ||||
| GitHub | github_app_installation_access_token | ||||
| GitHub | github_oauth_access_token | ||||
| GitHub | github_personal_access_token | ||||
| GitHub | github_refresh_token | ||||
| GitHub | github_ssh_private_key | ||||
| GitLab | gitlab_access_token | ||||
| GoCardless | gocardless_live_access_token | ||||
| GoCardless | gocardless_sandbox_access_token | ||||
| firebase_cloud_messaging_server_key | |||||
| google_cloud_storage_service_account_access_key_id google_cloud_storage_access_key_secret | |||||
| google_cloud_storage_user_access_key_id google_cloud_storage_access_key_secret | |||||
| google_oauth_access_token | |||||
| google_oauth_client_id google_oauth_client_secret | |||||
| google_oauth_refresh_token | |||||
| Google Cloud | google_api_key | ||||
| Google Cloud | google_cloud_private_key_id | ||||
| Grafana | grafana_cloud_api_key | ||||
| Grafana | grafana_cloud_api_token | ||||
| Grafana | grafana_project_api_key | ||||
| Grafana | grafana_project_service_account_token | ||||
| HashiCorp | hashicorp_vault_batch_token | ||||
| HashiCorp | hashicorp_vault_root_service_token | ||||
| HashiCorp | hashicorp_vault_service_token | ||||
| Hashicorp Terraform | terraform_api_token | ||||
| Highnote | highnote_rk_live_key | ||||
| Highnote | highnote_rk_test_key | ||||
| Highnote | highnote_sk_live_key | ||||
| Highnote | highnote_sk_test_key | ||||
| Hubspot | hubspot_api_key | ||||
| Hubspot | hubspot_api_personal_access_key | ||||
| Intercom | intercom_access_token | ||||
| Ionic | ionic_personal_access_token | ||||
| Ionic | ionic_refresh_token | ||||
| JD Cloud | jd_cloud_access_key | ||||
| JFrog | jfrog_platform_access_token | ||||
| JFrog | jfrog_platform_api_key | ||||
| JFrog | jfrog_platform_reference_token | ||||
| Linear | linear_api_key | ||||
| Linear | linear_oauth_access_token | ||||
| Lob | lob_live_api_key | ||||
| Lob | lob_test_api_key | ||||
| LocalStack | localstack_api_key | ||||
| LogicMonitor | logicmonitor_bearer_token | ||||
| LogicMonitor | logicmonitor_lmv1_access_key | ||||
| Mailchimp | mailchimp_api_key | ||||
| Mailchimp | MANDRILL_API | ||||
| Mailgun | mailgun_api_key | ||||
| Mapbox | mapbox_secret_access_token | ||||
| Maxmind | maxmind_license_key | ||||
| Mercury | mercury_non_production_api_token | ||||
| Mercury | mercury_production_api_token | ||||
| MessageBird | messagebird_api_key | ||||
| Meta | facebook_access_token | ||||
| Midtrans | midtrans_production_server_key | ||||
| Midtrans | midtrans_sandbox_server_key | ||||
| New Relic | new_relic_insights_query_key | ||||
| New Relic | new_relic_license_key | ||||
| New Relic | new_relic_personal_api_key | ||||
| New Relic | new_relic_rest_api_key | ||||
| Notion | notion_integration_token | ||||
| Notion | notion_oauth_client_secret | ||||
| npm | npm_access_token | ||||
| NuGet | nuget_api_key | ||||
| Octopus Deploy | octopus_deploy_api_key | ||||
| Oculus | oculus_very_tiny_encrypted_session | ||||
| OneChronos | onechronos_api_key | ||||
| OneChronos | onechronos_eb_api_key | ||||
| OneChronos | onechronos_eb_encryption_key | ||||
| OneChronos | onechronos_oauth_token | ||||
| OneChronos | onechronos_refresh_token | ||||
| Onfido | onfido_live_api_token | ||||
| Onfido | onfido_sandbox_api_token | ||||
| OpenAI | openai_api_key | ||||
| OpenAI | openai_api_key_v2 | ||||
| Palantir | palantir_jwt | ||||
| Persona | persona_production_api_key | ||||
| Persona | persona_sandbox_api_key | ||||
| pinterest_access_token | |||||
| pinterest_refresh_token | |||||
| PlanetScale | planetscale_database_password | ||||
| PlanetScale | planetscale_oauth_token | ||||
| PlanetScale | planetscale_service_token | ||||
| Plivo | plivo_auth_id plivo_auth_token | ||||
| Postman | postman_api_key | ||||
| Postman | postman_collection_key | ||||
| Prefect | prefect_server_api_key | ||||
| Prefect | prefect_user_api_key | ||||
| Prefect | PREFECT_USER_API_TOKEN | ||||
| Proctorio | proctorio_consumer_key | ||||
| Proctorio | proctorio_linkage_key | ||||
| Proctorio | proctorio_registration_key | ||||
| Proctorio | proctorio_secret_key | ||||
| Pulumi | pulumi_access_token | ||||
| PyPI | pypi_api_token | ||||
| ReadMe | readmeio_api_access_token | ||||
| redirect.pizza | redirect_pizza_api_token | ||||
| Rootly | rootly_api_key | ||||
| RubyGems | rubygems_api_key | ||||
| Samsara | samsara_api_token | ||||
| Samsara | samsara_oauth_access_token | ||||
| Segment | segment_public_api_token | ||||
| SendGrid | sendgrid_api_key | ||||
| Sendinblue | sendinblue_api_key | ||||
| Sendinblue | sendinblue_smtp_key | ||||
| Shippo | shippo_live_api_token | ||||
| Shippo | shippo_test_api_token | ||||
| Shopify | shopify_access_token | ||||
| Shopify | shopify_app_client_credentials | ||||
| Shopify | shopify_app_client_secret | ||||
| Shopify | shopify_app_shared_secret | ||||
| Shopify | shopify_custom_app_access_token | ||||
| Shopify | shopify_marketplace_token | ||||
| Shopify | shopify_merchant_token | ||||
| Shopify | shopify_partner_api_token | ||||
| Shopify | shopify_private_app_password | ||||
| Slack | slack_api_token | ||||
| Slack | slack_incoming_webhook_url | ||||
| Slack | slack_workflow_webhook_url | ||||
| Square | square_access_token | ||||
| Square | square_production_application_secret | ||||
| Square | square_sandbox_application_secret | ||||
| SSLMate | sslmate_api_key | ||||
| SSLMate | sslmate_cluster_secret | ||||
| Stripe | stripe_live_restricted_key | ||||
| Stripe | stripe_api_key | ||||
| Stripe | stripe_legacy_api_key | ||||
| Stripe | stripe_test_restricted_key | ||||
| Stripe | stripe_test_secret_key | ||||
| Stripe | stripe_webhook_signing_secret | ||||
| Supabase | supabase_service_key | ||||
| Tableau | tableau_personal_access_token | ||||
| Telegram | telegram_bot_token | ||||
| Telnyx | telnyx_api_v2_key | ||||
| Tencent Cloud | tencent_cloud_secret_id | ||||
| Tencent WeChat | tencent_wechat_api_app_id | ||||
| Twilio | twilio_access_token | ||||
| Twilio | twilio_account_sid | ||||
| Twilio | twilio_api_key | ||||
| Typeform | typeform_personal_access_token | ||||
| Uniwise | wiseflow_api_key | ||||
| WakaTime | wakatime_pp_secret | ||||
| WakaTime | wakatime_oauth_access_token | ||||
| WakaTime | wakatime_oauth_refresh_token | ||||
| Workato | workato_developer_api_token | ||||
| WorkOS | workos_production_api_key | ||||
| WorkOS | workos_staging_api_key | ||||
| Yandex | yandex_iam_access_secret | ||||
| Yandex | yandex_cloud_api_key | ||||
| Yandex | yandex_cloud_iam_cookie | ||||
| Yandex | yandex_cloud_iam_token | ||||
| Yandex | yandex_dictionary_api_key | ||||
| Yandex | YANDEX_PASSPORT_OAUTH_TOKEN | ||||
| Yandex | yandex_predictor_api_key | ||||
| Yandex | yandex_translate_api_key | ||||
| Zuplo | zuplo_consumer_api_key |