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January 9, 20253 Minute Read

Secret scanning expands default pattern support

GitHub continually updates the default pattern set for secret scanning with new patterns and upgrades of existing patterns, ensuring your repositories have comprehensive detection for different secret types.

The following new patterns were added over the last few months. Secret scanning automatically detects any secrets matching these patterns in your repositories. See the full list of supported secrets in the documentation.

ProviderTokenPartnerUserPush protection
Anthropicanthropic_admin_api_key
Asaasasaas_api_token
Asanaasana_legacy_format_personal_access_token ✓
Azureazure_openai_key
Azuremicrosoft_azure_common_annotated_security_key
Azuremicrosoft_azure_entra_id_token
Cfx.recfxre_server_key
Cockroach Labsccdb_api_key
Coveocoveo_access_token
Databentodatabento_api_key
Datastaxdatastax_astracs_token
Googlegoogle_cloud_service_account_credentials
Googlegoogle_gcp_api_key_bound_service_account
Hubspothubspot_private_apps_user_token
Hubspothubspot_smtp_credential
Hugging Facehf_user_access_token
Iterativeiterative_dvc_studio_access_token
Lichesslichess_personal_access_token
Lichesslichess_oauth_access_token
MongoDBmongodb_atlas_db_uri_with_credentials
Netflixnetflix_netkey
OpenRouteropenrouter_api_key
Oracleoracle_api_key
Polarpolar_access_token
Polarpolar_authorization_code
Polarpolar_client_registration_token
Polarpolar_client_secret
Polarpolar_personal_access_token
Polarpolar_refresh_token
Replicatereplicate_api_token
Scalrscalr_api_token
Sentrysentry_org_auth_token
Sentrysentry_user_auth_token
Sentrysentry_user_app_auth_token
Sentrysentry_integration_token
Shopeeshopee_open_platform_partner_key
Siemenssiemens_api_token
Sindrisindri_api_key
Tailscaletailscale_api_key

The following existing patterns were upgraded to be included in push protection. When push protection is enabled, secret scanning automatically blocks any pushes that contain a secret matching these patterns.

ProviderToken
Contentfulcontentful_personal_access_token
GitLabgitlab_access_token
Ionicionic_refresh_token
Orbitorbit_api_token
PyPIpypi_api_token
Thunderstorethunderstore_io_api_token
Yandexyandex_cloud_iam_access_secret

Learn more about securing your repositories with secret scanning.

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Secret scanning expands default pattern support - GitHub Changelog