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scanned 2026-05-26 · git 956b8c5
1 of 6 checks flagged a security issue
🔴 Needs attention
6 checks ran. Start with leaked secrets below.

Informational scan, not a security audit. How this is computed.

Leaked secrets54Vulnerable dependencies✓Known OSS vulnerabilities✓Risky code patterns✓Malicious dependencies✓Project health9

Security checks

Leaked secrets — Gitleaksⓘ 54 found · 7 serious

API keys, passwords or tokens committed into the repo.

  • Serious private-key Identified a Private Key, which may compromise cryptographic security and sensitive data encryption.
    test/testcert.pem:1
    A credential (key, password or token) appears in your code. Fix: Remove it, rotate the key, and load it from an environment variable instead.
  • Serious jwt Uncovered a JSON Web Token, which may lead to unauthorized access to web applications and sensitive user data.
    youtube_dl/extractor/adultswim.py:159
    A credential (key, password or token) appears in your code. Fix: Remove it, rotate the key, and load it from an environment variable instead.
  • Serious algolia-api-key Identified an Algolia API Key, which could result in unauthorized search operations and data exposure on Algolia-managed platforms.
    youtube_dl/extractor/americastestkitchen.py:193
    A credential (key, password or token) appears in your code. Fix: Remove it, rotate the key, and load it from an environment variable instead.
  • Serious aws-access-token Identified a pattern that may indicate AWS credentials, risking unauthorized cloud resource access and data breaches on AWS platforms.
    youtube_dl/extractor/shahid.py:42
    A credential (key, password or token) appears in your code. Fix: Remove it, rotate the key, and load it from an environment variable instead.
  • Serious gcp-api-key Uncovered a GCP API key, which could lead to unauthorized access to Google Cloud services and data breaches.
    youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py:386
    A credential (key, password or token) appears in your code. Fix: Remove it, rotate the key, and load it from an environment variable instead.
  • Serious gcp-api-key Uncovered a GCP API key, which could lead to unauthorized access to Google Cloud services and data breaches.
    youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py:499
    A credential (key, password or token) appears in your code. Fix: Remove it, rotate the key, and load it from an environment variable instead.
  • Serious gcp-api-key Uncovered a GCP API key, which could lead to unauthorized access to Google Cloud services and data breaches.
    youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py:3600
    A credential (key, password or token) appears in your code. Fix: Remove it, rotate the key, and load it from an environment variable instead.
  • Worth fixing generic-api-key Detected a Generic API Key, potentially exposing access to various services and sensitive operations.
    youtube_dl/extractor/americastestkitchen.py:100
    A credential (key, password or token) appears in your code. Fix: Remove it, rotate the key, and load it from an environment variable instead.
  • Worth fixing generic-api-key Detected a Generic API Key, potentially exposing access to various services and sensitive operations.
    youtube_dl/extractor/camwithher.py:34
    A credential (key, password or token) appears in your code. Fix: Remove it, rotate the key, and load it from an environment variable instead.
  • Worth fixing generic-api-key Detected a Generic API Key, potentially exposing access to various services and sensitive operations.
    youtube_dl/extractor/bitchute.py:104
    A credential (key, password or token) appears in your code. Fix: Remove it, rotate the key, and load it from an environment variable instead.
  • Worth fixing generic-api-key Detected a Generic API Key, potentially exposing access to various services and sensitive operations.
    youtube_dl/extractor/anvato.py:206
    A credential (key, password or token) appears in your code. Fix: Remove it, rotate the key, and load it from an environment variable instead.
  • Worth fixing generic-api-key Detected a Generic API Key, potentially exposing access to various services and sensitive operations.
    youtube_dl/extractor/canvas.py:262
    A credential (key, password or token) appears in your code. Fix: Remove it, rotate the key, and load it from an environment variable instead.
  • Worth fixing generic-api-key Detected a Generic API Key, potentially exposing access to various services and sensitive operations.
    youtube_dl/extractor/clyp.py:29
    A credential (key, password or token) appears in your code. Fix: Remove it, rotate the key, and load it from an environment variable instead.
  • Worth fixing generic-api-key Detected a Generic API Key, potentially exposing access to various services and sensitive operations.
    youtube_dl/extractor/ciscolive.py:24
    A credential (key, password or token) appears in your code. Fix: Remove it, rotate the key, and load it from an environment variable instead.
  • Worth fixing generic-api-key Detected a Generic API Key, potentially exposing access to various services and sensitive operations.
    test/test_InfoExtractor.py:746
    A credential (key, password or token) appears in your code. Fix: Remove it, rotate the key, and load it from an environment variable instead.
  • Worth fixing generic-api-key Detected a Generic API Key, potentially exposing access to various services and sensitive operations.
    test/test_InfoExtractor.py:749
    A credential (key, password or token) appears in your code. Fix: Remove it, rotate the key, and load it from an environment variable instead.
  • Worth fixing generic-api-key Detected a Generic API Key, potentially exposing access to various services and sensitive operations.
    test/test_InfoExtractor.py:758
    A credential (key, password or token) appears in your code. Fix: Remove it, rotate the key, and load it from an environment variable instead.
  • Worth fixing generic-api-key Detected a Generic API Key, potentially exposing access to various services and sensitive operations.
    test/test_InfoExtractor.py:769
    A credential (key, password or token) appears in your code. Fix: Remove it, rotate the key, and load it from an environment variable instead.
  • Worth fixing generic-api-key Detected a Generic API Key, potentially exposing access to various services and sensitive operations.
    test/test_InfoExtractor.py:780
    A credential (key, password or token) appears in your code. Fix: Remove it, rotate the key, and load it from an environment variable instead.
  • Worth fixing generic-api-key Detected a Generic API Key, potentially exposing access to various services and sensitive operations.
    test/test_InfoExtractor.py:791
    A credential (key, password or token) appears in your code. Fix: Remove it, rotate the key, and load it from an environment variable instead.
  • Worth fixing generic-api-key Detected a Generic API Key, potentially exposing access to various services and sensitive operations.
    test/test_InfoExtractor.py:802
    A credential (key, password or token) appears in your code. Fix: Remove it, rotate the key, and load it from an environment variable instead.
  • Worth fixing generic-api-key Detected a Generic API Key, potentially exposing access to various services and sensitive operations.
    youtube_dl/extractor/dailymotion.py:55
    A credential (key, password or token) appears in your code. Fix: Remove it, rotate the key, and load it from an environment variable instead.
  • Worth fixing generic-api-key Detected a Generic API Key, potentially exposing access to various services and sensitive operations.
    youtube_dl/extractor/fox.py:55
    A credential (key, password or token) appears in your code. Fix: Remove it, rotate the key, and load it from an environment variable instead.
  • Worth fixing generic-api-key Detected a Generic API Key, potentially exposing access to various services and sensitive operations.
    youtube_dl/extractor/cbc.py:223
    A credential (key, password or token) appears in your code. Fix: Remove it, rotate the key, and load it from an environment variable instead.
  • Worth fixing generic-api-key Detected a Generic API Key, potentially exposing access to various services and sensitive operations.
    youtube_dl/extractor/gbnews.py:65
    A credential (key, password or token) appears in your code. Fix: Remove it, rotate the key, and load it from an environment variable instead.
… 29 more not shown

via Gitleaks v8.21.2 · MIT

Vulnerable dependencies — Trivyⓘ none found ✓

Packages you depend on that have known security holes (CVEs).

Nothing found by this check. ✓

via Trivy v0.70.0 · Apache-2.0

Known OSS vulnerabilities — OSV-Scannerⓘ none found ✓

Your dependencies cross-checked against the OSV vulnerability database.

Nothing found by this check. ✓

via OSV-Scanner v1.9.2 · Apache-2.0

Risky code patterns — Semgrepⓘ none found ✓

Code that can be exploited — injection, hardcoded credentials and similar.

Nothing found by this check. ✓

via Semgrep v1.147.0 · LGPL-2.1

Malicious dependencies — Guarddogⓘ none found ✓

Packages that look intentionally malicious — typosquats, sneaky install scripts.

Nothing found by this check. ✓

via Guarddog v2.10.0 · Apache-2.0

Project health

A signal about how the project is maintained — not a vulnerability in your code. It doesn’t affect the verdict above.

Project health — OpenSSF Scorecardⓘ 9 notes

Maintenance & supply-chain hygiene. A signal about the project — not a vulnerability in your code.

  • Minor scorecard-overall OpenSSF Scorecard overall: 4.8/10
    A project-health signal (maintenance / supply-chain hygiene) — not a vulnerability in your code.
  • Minor scorecard-Branch-Protection Branch-Protection scored 0: branch protection not enabled on development/release branches
    A project-health signal (maintenance / supply-chain hygiene) — not a vulnerability in your code.
  • Minor scorecard-CII-Best-Practices CII-Best-Practices scored 0: no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
    A project-health signal (maintenance / supply-chain hygiene) — not a vulnerability in your code.
  • Minor scorecard-Dependency-Update-Tool Dependency-Update-Tool scored 0: no update tool detected
    A project-health signal (maintenance / supply-chain hygiene) — not a vulnerability in your code.
  • Minor scorecard-Fuzzing Fuzzing scored 0: project is not fuzzed
    A project-health signal (maintenance / supply-chain hygiene) — not a vulnerability in your code.
  • Minor scorecard-Maintained Maintained scored 0: 0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0
    A project-health signal (maintenance / supply-chain hygiene) — not a vulnerability in your code.
  • Minor scorecard-Pinned-Dependencies Pinned-Dependencies scored 0: dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
    A project-health signal (maintenance / supply-chain hygiene) — not a vulnerability in your code.
  • Minor scorecard-SAST SAST scored 0: SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
    A project-health signal (maintenance / supply-chain hygiene) — not a vulnerability in your code.
  • Minor scorecard-Security-Policy Security-Policy scored 0: security policy file not detected
    A project-health signal (maintenance / supply-chain hygiene) — not a vulnerability in your code.

via OpenSSF Scorecard v5.0.0 · Apache-2.0

About these results. Six open-source checks ran in parallel; every finding is tagged with the tool that produced it. The verdict follows a published rule. False positives and false negatives are normal — a clean scan does not mean the code is secure, and a red verdict does not mean the project is compromised.