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Helm Chart Secrets Leak Detection

helm-chart-secrets-leak is a high severity check in the devops category, written in python. Its source is templates/devops/kubernetes/helm-chart-secrets-leak.py in cert-x-gen-templates.

Detects exposed secrets in Helm chart values.yaml files

Field Value
Id helm-chart-secrets-leak
Severity high
Language python
Category devops
Author CERT-X-GEN Security Team
Template version 1.0.0
Confidence 90
CVSS 7.5
Weakness CWE-798, CWE-200
Tags kubernetes, helm, secrets, credentials, devops
Target kind not recorded
Oracle not recorded

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.

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

Terminal window
cxg template info helm-chart-secrets-leak

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.