trufflehog VS pre-commit-hooks

Trufflehog

Frankly, I think it will take years to replace API-keys (if it will ever happen). Developers are much better-off using CLI tools that prevent leaking secrets by blocking commits to git (e.g., https://github.com/Infisical/infisical or https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog)

Trufflehog also offers pre-commit hooks. You can have it report on PRs too.

Is this not just a another https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog?

I agree that code scanning is really important, the best way to convince others is to identify high-risk threats in source code and present them to the decision-makers. For example, scanning Secrets is great for showing how repositories can be a massive vulnerability and identifying some low-hanging fruit, especially in the git history. Attackers are really after git repository access for this reason and there are plenty of open-source or free tools that you can use to illustrate the problem. Git-Secrets, Truffle Hog. These aren't great for a long-term commercial solution, something like GitGuardian is a better commercial tool but if the goal is just to illustrate the problem then finding some high-value secrets with free tools is a good way to convince the security personnel to invest in some solutions. Then the door is open to having more conversations as you have already proven the risk.

It’s easy to think that it’s only important to scan for secrets in your public-facing repositories, but this real-world data breach proves that you need to treat all code the same from a security perspective. Malicious hackers can use open-source tools like Gitleaks and TruffleHog to quickly detect secrets in massive amounts of code*, without leaving a trace. As a defender, **it’s extremely important to have secret scans tightly integrated into your SDLC* (software development lifecycle) to reduce the risks of exposing them. GitGuardian offers secret scanning for private repositories in their Free, Business, and Enterprise plans.

There are software like Trufflehog ( https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog ), that finds secrets. We are using it at organizational level, but there's always some delay from finding something and getting it reported. I've been meaning to add it both to our CI so our team can notice right away, and even to Git push hooks, to catch these cases early.

https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog And https://github.com/Yelp/detect-secrets

Have you tried trufflehog or gitrob? gitrob trufflehog

# See https://pre-commit.com for more information # See https://pre-commit.com/hooks.html for more hooks repos: - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks rev: v3.2.0 hooks: - id: trailing-whitespace - id: end-of-file-fixer - id: check-yaml - id: check-toml - id: check-added-large-files - repo: local hooks: - id: tox lint name: tox-validation entry: pdm run tox -e test,lint language: system files: ^src\/.+py$|pyproject.toml|^tests\/.+py$ types_or: [python, toml] pass_filenames: false - id: tox docs name: tox-docs language: system entry: pdm run tox -e docs types_or: [python, rst, toml] files: ^src\/.+py$|pyproject.toml|^docs\/ pass_filenames: false - repo: https://github.com/pdm-project/pdm rev: 2.10.4 # a PDM release exposing the hook hooks: - id: pdm-lock-check - repo: https://github.com/jumanjihouse/pre-commit-hooks rev: 3.0.0 hooks: - id: markdownlint

repos: - repo: https://github.com/ambv/black rev: 23.3.0 hooks: - id: black args: [--config=./pyproject.toml] language_version: python3.11 - repo: https://github.com/pycqa/flake8 rev: 6.0.0 hooks: - id: flake8 args: [--config=./tox.ini] language_version: python3.11 - repo: https://github.com/pycqa/isort rev: 5.12.0 hooks: - id: isort args: ["--profile", "black", "--filter-files"] language_version: python3.11 - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks rev: v4.4.0 hooks: - id: requirements-txt-fixer language_version: python3.11 - id: debug-statements - id: detect-aws-credentials - id: detect-private-key

repos: - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks rev: hooks: - id: check-json

$ pre-commit run --all-files [INFO] Initializing environment for https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks. [INFO] Initializing environment for https://github.com/psf/black. [INFO] Installing environment for https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks. [INFO] Once installed this environment will be reused. [INFO] This may take a few minutes... [INFO] Installing environment for https://github.com/psf/black. [INFO] Once installed this environment will be reused. [INFO] This may take a few minutes... Check Yaml...............................................................Passed Fix End of Files.........................................................Passed Trim Trailing Whitespace.................................................Failed - hook id: trailing-whitespace - exit code: 1 Files were modified by this hook. Additional output: Fixing sample.py black....................................................................Passed

The excellent pre-commit framework (https://pre-commit.com/) has a hook for that in its official hook collection: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks#detect-aws-cr...

exclude: .*migrations\/.* repos: - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks ... - repo: https://github.com/psf/black rev: 22.12.0 hooks: - id: black language_version: python3.9

This is what we use — https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks/blob/main/pre_commit_hooks/detect_private_key.py

Personally I do also add "end-of-file-fixer" and "trailing-whitespace" from the "https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks" repo. That cleans up and normalizes some files as well.

repos: - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks rev: v3.3.0 hooks: - id: check-yaml args: ["--allow-multiple-documents"] - repo: local hooks: - id: forbidden-files name: forbidden files entry: found copier update rejection files; review them and remove them language: fail files: "\\.rej$" - id: black name: black entry: poetry run black language: system types: [python] - id: flake8 name: flake8 entry: poetry run flake8 language: system types: [python] - id: isort name: isort entry: poetry run isort --settings-path=. language: system types: [python] - id: pyupgrade name: pyupgrade entry: poetry run pyupgrade language: system types: [python] args: [--py310-plus] - id: mypy name: mypy description: Check python types. entry: poetry run mypy language: system types: [python]

repos: - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks rev: v4.1.0 hooks: - id: no-commit-to-branch