With today’s attack surfaces constantly expanding, managing secrets everywhere – including within collaboration and project management tools – is paramount. Cycode is excited to announce the expansion of secrets scanning to both Jira and Confluence. With the integration of Cycode’s secrets scanning capabilities into Jira and Confluence, organizations can now safeguard their critical data more effectively.
Understanding Jira and Confluence
Jira is powerful tool developed by Atlassian. It is widely used for issue tracking, task management, and agile project management. It streamlines the software development process, enabling teams to efficiently plan, track, and release software.
Atlassian also developed Confluence, a dynamic collaboration tool that allows teams to create, share, and work together on projects in real time. It is a central hub for everything from meeting notes and project plans to technical documentation and knowledge bases.
The Risks of Secrets in Jira and Confluence
As central hubs for collaboration, Jira and Confluence often house sensitive information, including:
- Credentials and Access Tokens: Teams frequently store access credentials, API tokens, and other authentication details within Jira and Confluence for seamless integration with other tools and services. Unauthorized access to these can compromise critical systems and data.
- Configuration Files and Environment Variables: Development teams may share configuration files and environment variables containing sensitive data like database credentials, encryption keys, and server configurations. Leakage of this information can lead to severe security breaches.
Organizations must ensure that critical assets are not exposed in these environments.
Real-World Examples of Exposed Secrets
Attackers often target secrets to gain unauthorized access to systems and data through various attack vectors. Here are some critical examples from real life.
Copy-Pasting from Code and API Curls
Developers might paste code snippets containing sensitive API keys or tokens into Jira tickets.
Example:
curl -X GET -H "Accept:application/json, text/plain, */*" -H "X-Request-ID:EHdz8DWrC" -H "Content-Type:application/json" -H "Authorization:Bearer <TOKEN>" -H "User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 -H "Content-Length:2" --data '{}' "https://api.example.com/data"
Error Logs and Debugging Information
Logs attached to tickets can contain sensitive data like database credentials.
Example: Logs showing database connection strings
db_connect('user:password@localhost:3306/mydb').