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:
- a real credential, or
- a placeholder / example value?
Thank you for your time.
Code snippet (sensitive values masked):
static const CFOptionFlags kNetworkEvents =
kCFStreamEventOpenCompleted | kCFStreamEventHasBytesAvailable | kCFStreamEventEndEncountered | kCFStreamEventErrorOccurred;
bool g_bHasProxy = false;
CFMutableArrayRef g_proxyAuthArray = NULL;
CFMutableDictionaryRef g_proxyCredDict = NULL;
const char* g_my_username = "t****";
const char* g_my_p****word = "p****";
const char* g_proxy_domain = "my****in";
enum {
CF_PROXY_STATE_IDLE,
CF_PROXY_STATE_WAITING,
CF_PROXY_STATE_TRYING,
Thank you in advance for your time - I really appreciate it!
Sincerely,
Emma
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:
Thank you for your time.
Code snippet (sensitive values masked):
Thank you in advance for your time - I really appreciate it!
Sincerely,
Emma