Azure Service Management Certificate detected in code

Rule Details

Cortex AppSec Rule ID	APPSEC_SECRET_169
Category	Encryption Keys
Severity	HIGH
Framework	Git

Impact

An Azure Service Management Certificate is an X.509 certificate used for authentication and management tasks across Azure services.

Exposure of an unprotected certificate is a Critical Vulnerability, enabling an attacker to gain unauthorized, high-privilege management access to a wide array of Azure resources, leading to mass infrastructure compromise.

How to Fix

To remediate exposed Cloud & Infrastructure credentials:

1. Log in to your cloud provider's console.
2. Locate the identity or service account associated with the compromised credentials.
3. Revoke or deactivate the compromised keys immediately.
4. Generate a new set of credentials.
5. Update your environment variables, secrets manager, or pipelines with the new values.

Next, remove the secret from your codebase:

1. Locate the exposed secret in your codebase.
2. Replace the hardcoded value with a secure variable or reference.

Finally, clean your version control history:

1. Permanently remove the sensitive data from your version control history to ensure it cannot be retrieved.

Warning: Revoking infrastructure keys may cause immediate downtime. Ensure you have identified all dependent services before revoking.