Confluent Keys

ID

confluent_api_keys

Severity

high

Vendor

Confluent

Family

API Token

Description

Built by the original creators of Apache Kafka®, Confluent Platform is a full-scale data streaming platform that enables you to easily access, store, and manage data as continuous, real-time streams. The Confluent REST Proxy provides a RESTful interface to an Apache Kafka® cluster.

Security

Any hardcoded Confluent API Key is a potential secret reported by this detector.

Accidentally checking-in the key to source control repositories could compromise your Confluent account.

Suspicious activity could be detected by checking the Logs.

Examples

CONFLUENT_KEY=06R3HSEUIQ1DVO7Y
CONFLUENT_SECRET=M8m6yxc2AFX8p4IQe8Lf5H+JLmYkGrTSke/J8oCkFqDMs1w65XKASDCdq0RHGVSR

Mitigation / Fix

  1. Remove the API Key from the source code or committed configuration file.

  2. Follow your policy for handling leaked secrets, which typically require revoking the secret in the target system(s).

  3. If under a git repository, you may remove unwanted files from the repository history using tools like git filter-repo or BFG Repo-Cleaner. You may follow the procedure listed here for GitHub.

You should consider any sensitive data in commits with secrets as compromised.

Remember that secrets may be removed from history in your projects, but not in other users' cloned or forked repositories.

Reference

https://docs.confluent.io/cloud/current/client-apps/api-keys.html