Issues

• [BUG] allow secret in next line

  IBM/detect-secrets#197 · Filter by author epuertat opened on Sep 16, 2026

• 🔒 Security Alerts — IBM/detect-secrets

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  IBM/detect-secrets#195 · Filter by author security-ops-bot opened on Sep 10, 2026
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• [BUG] detect github recoveery codes

  IBM/detect-secrets#194 · Filter by author srl295 opened on Sep 6, 2026

• [BUG] when --word-list is not specified, scan --update does not reuse the word-list in the base line

  IBM/detect-secrets#189 · Filter by author thomas-ancel opened on Apr 16, 2026

• [BUG] urllib3 (2.6.3) or chardet (7.0.0)/charset_normalizer (3.4.4) doesn't match a supported version

  IBM/detect-secrets#182 · Filter by author ocofaigh opened on Mar 4, 2026
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• [BUG] Unable to create a baseline file

  IBM/detect-secrets#180 · Filter by author Sher-Chowdhury opened on Feb 23, 2026

• [BUG] Need to support version urllib3 without vulnerability

  IBM/detect-secrets#172 · Filter by author afandusibmcom opened on Aug 27, 2025
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• PEP 517 deprecation warning when installing detect-secrets (missing pyproject.toml)

  IBM/detect-secrets#169 · Filter by author saquibsaifee opened on Aug 1, 2025
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• [BUG] Apache License incorrectly modified

  IBM/detect-secrets#167 · Filter by author shinnar opened on May 22, 2025

• Api difference between detect-secrets-hook and detect-secrets

  IBM/detect-secrets#162 · Filter by author yanivoren-ibm opened on Nov 17, 2024

• [BUG] detect-secrets can be incompatible with Python 3.12 due to deprecated boxsdk and six

  IBM/detect-secrets#160 · Filter by author dnwe opened on Oct 10, 2024

• detect-secrets does not detect secrets that are base64 encoded

  IBM/detect-secrets#155 · Filter by author leotizzei opened on Jul 15, 2024
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• [Feature Request] Keep old results and read path list from file (for incremental scans)

  IBM/detect-secrets#154 · Filter by author RaymondBakerIBM opened on Jun 25, 2024
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• [BUG] Missing Header file ffi.h

  IBM/detect-secrets#152 · Filter by author hydernaqvi opened on May 29, 2024

• [BUG] Regression in 0.13.1+ibm.62.dss resulting in results being wiped out from baseline file

  IBM/detect-secrets#148 · Filter by author mlucic opened on Apr 11, 2024
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• [BUG] Tool detects integrity checksums as potential secrets (Base64 High Entropy String)

  IBM/detect-secrets#146 · Filter by author jimjaeger opened on Jan 2, 2024
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• [BUG] git pre-commit hook breaks interactive rebase, looses comits

  IBM/detect-secrets#134 · Filter by author brackendawson opened on Jul 20, 2023

• [BUG] Detect secrets does not apply exclude lines filter from baseline file

  IBM/detect-secrets#132 · Filter by author cguest97 opened on Jul 4, 2023
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• [BUG] Running with docker image generates empty baseline file

  IBM/detect-secrets#131 · Filter by author cyrusfurtado opened on Jun 15, 2023
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• [BUG] high-entropy strings are ignored under certain circumstances

  IBM/detect-secrets#87 · Filter by author 0xDokki opened on May 10, 2022
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• [BUG] AWS secret not getting verified

  IBM/detect-secrets#79 · Filter by author eran-medan opened on Apr 2, 2022
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• [BUG] v1 UUID format secrets not being detected

  IBM/detect-secrets#61 · Filter by author gary1998 opened on Mar 17, 2022
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• Detect AWS temporary credentials

  IBM/detect-secrets#34 · Filter by author christophetd opened on Nov 10, 2021

• SARIF file support

  IBM/detect-secrets#33 · Filter by author DariuszPorowski opened on Oct 28, 2021