Git History Secret Scan

git-history-secret-scan is a critical severity check in the devops category, written in go. Its source is templates/devops/git/git-history-secret-scan.go in cert-x-gen-templates.

What it checks

Detects exposed .git directories on web servers that allow reconstruction of repository history and extraction of credentials, API keys, tokens, and other secrets from commit history and configuration files.

Header

Field	Value
Id	git-history-secret-scan
Severity	critical
Language	go
Category	devops
Author	BugB Technologies
Template version	not recorded
Confidence	95
CVSS	not recorded
Weakness	CWE-312
Tags	git, secret-exposure, credential-leak, misconfiguration, source-code-disclosure, devops
Target kind	not recorded
Oracle	not recorded

References

Declared in the header. cxg parses @references and then discards it, and nothing at scan time reads it, so this is the only place the links a template cites are surfaced.

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/312.html
• https://owasp.org/www-project-web-security-testing-guide/latest/4-Web_Application_Security_Testing/02-Configuration_and_Deployment_Management_Testing/05-Enumerate_Infrastructure_and_Application_Admin_Interfaces
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?query=git+exposure

Run it

To see what the copy on your machine says about itself, and to confirm it is installed at all:

cxg template info git-history-secret-scan

The id it prints is the one to pass anywhere a template is selected. See cxg template for the rest of the subcommand, Scan a target for running a scan, and A match is not a finding for how to read what comes back.

Related

• Template catalog is the whole corpus.
• devops is the rest of this category.
• Templates by weakness class groups checks by the defect they look for.
• Contribute a template is the route from a check you needed and could not find to a merged one.