Security-related question about a possible exposed credential

[Emma-NYL]

Hello,

My name is Emma, I am conducting an academic study on possible credential exposure in public GitHub repositories.

While analyzing this repository, I found a string that may represent a credential. I'm including the code snippet below containing possible leakage. To avoid exposing sensitive information publicly, I marked the sensitive information.

Could you please help clarify whether the detected string is:

1. a real credential, or
2. a placeholder / example value?

Thank you for your time.

---

Code snippet (sensitive values masked):

    serviceAccountId?: string;
    apiKey?: string;
};

export const EnvironmentVariables = {
    URL: "OCT****_URL",
    ApiKey: "OCTOP****PI_KEY",
    AccessToken: "OCTOPUS_****SS_TOKEN",
};

export type OpenIdConfiguration = {
    issuer: string;
    token_endpoint: string;

Thank you in advance for your time - I really appreciate it!

Sincerely,
Emma

[lourens-octopus]

Hi @Emma-NYL, thank you for your query!

The values you identified only serve as a map to variable names that the GitHub actions writes to. This allows us to to not hardcode string literals in our code avoiding any typo mistakes and makes renaming easier for us, if we choose to do so, in the future.

Hope this helps and good luck with your study!