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Security-related question about a possible exposed credential #955

@Emma-NYL

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@Emma-NYL

Hello,

My name is Emma, I am conducting an academic study on possible credential exposure in public GitHub repositories.

While analyzing this repository, I found a string that may represent a credential. I'm including the code snippet below containing possible leakage. To avoid exposing sensitive information publicly, I marked the sensitive information.

Could you please help clarify whether the detected string is:

  1. a real credential, or
  2. a placeholder / example value?

Thank you for your time.


Code snippet (sensitive values masked):

    public static final String OS_CATEGORY_ID = "oscategoryid";
    public static final String OS_TYPE_ID = "ostypeid";
    public static final String OS_DISPLAY_NAME = "osdisplayname";
    public static final String OS_NAME_FOR_HYPERVISOR = "osnameforhypervisor";
    public static final String PARAMS = "params";
    public static final String PARENT_DOMAIN_ID = "parentdomainid";
    public static final String PASSWORD = "password";
    public static final String SHOULD_UPDATE_PASSWORD = "update_passwd_on_host";
    public static final String NEW_PASSWORD = "new_password";
    public static final String PASSWORD_ENABLED = "passwordenabled";
    public static final String SSHKEY_ENABLED = "sshkeyenabled";
    public static final String PATH = "path";
    public static final String POD_ID = "podid";

Thank you in advance for your time - I really appreciate it!

Sincerely,
Emma

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