Dropbox App Credentials

dropbox_app_credentials

Severity

high

Vendor

Dropbox

Family

API Token

Description

Dropbox is a file hosting service that offers cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud, and client software.

Application credentials are a pair of client id/secret generated for each application a user wants to register in its own Dropbox.

Any hardcoded Dropbox Credential is a potential secret reported by this detector.

Accidentally checking-in the credential to source control repositories could compromise your Dropbox account.

Suspicious activity could be detected by checking the analytics at your Developer Console.

App_key="bebnaygtbdn2pdp"
App_secret="bebnaygtbdn2pdp"

Remove the credential from the source code or committed configuration file.
Follow your policy for handling leaked secrets, which typically require revoking the secret in the target system(s).
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.