Flutterwave API Key

ID

flutterwave_key

Severity

critical

Vendor

Flutterwave

Family

API Token

Description

Flutterwave is a Nigerian fintech company that provides a payment infrastructure for global merchants and payment service providers across the continent.

Flutterwave secret key is used to authenticate the API requests.

Security

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

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

Examples

const secretKey = "FLWSECK-NwTZt7KE5kV5bZh32BNtHIZnU10oa4UE-X"

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). Go to API Keys, find the specific key and revoke it.

  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://developer.flutterwave.com/docs