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July 22, 20252 minutes read

Secret scanning adds validity checks for over 40 secret detectors

Secret scanning is adding validity check support for 45 additional token types across over 30 providers.

What’s changing?

In addition to previously announced token types, you will now see validity checks for the following secret types:

ProviderPatternValidity
Block Protocolblock_protocol_api_key✅
Brevosendinblue_api_key✅
Canadian Digital Servicescds_canada_notify_api_key✅
Checkout.comcheckout_production_secret_key✅
Checkout.comcheckout_test_secret_key✅
CircleCIcircleci_personal_access_token✅
DataBentodatabento_api_key✅
Dopplerdoppler_audit_token✅
Dopplerdoppler_cli_token✅
Dopplerdoppler_scim_token✅
Dopplerdoppler_service_token✅
Fastlyfastly_api_token✅
Figmafigma_pat✅
FlutterWaveflutterwave_live_api_secret_key✅
FlutterWaveflutterwave_test_api_secret_key✅
Frame.ioframeio_developer_token✅
Frame.ioframeio_jwt✅
GoCardlessgocardless_live_access_token✅
GoCardlessgocardless_sandbox_access_token✅
Herokuheroku_platform_api_oauth2_token✅
Highnotehighnote_sk_live_key✅
Highnotehighnote_sk_test_key✅
Intercomintercom_access_token✅
Lichesslichess_oauth_access_token✅
Lichesslichess_personal_access_token✅
Loblob_live_api_key✅
Loblob_test_api_key✅
MapBoxmapbox_secret_access_token✅
MaxMindmaxmind_license_key✅
Mercurymercury_non_production_api_token✅
Mercurymercury_production_api_token✅
OpenRouteropenrouter_api_key✅
Persona Identitiespersona_production_api_key✅
Persona Identitiespersona_sandbox_api_key✅
Planning Centerplanning_center_oauth_access_token✅
Pulumipulumi_access_token✅
redirect.pizzaredirect_pizza_api_token✅
Replicatereplicate_api_token✅
Rootlyrootly_api_key✅
RubyGemsrubygems_api_key✅
Scalrscalr_api_token✅
SendGridsendgrid_api_key✅
Sindrisindri_api_key✅
Unkeyunkey_root_key✅
xAIxai_api_key✅
Zuplozuplo_consumer_api_key✅

What are validity checks?

Validity checks indicate if the leaked credentials are active and could still be exploited. If you’ve previously enabled validation checks for a given repository, GitHub will now automatically verify validity for alerts on supported token types. View the full list of supported secret types in our product documentation.

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Secret scanning adds validity checks for over 40 secret detectors - GitHub Changelog