Okta Token

ID

okta_token

Severity

critical

Vendor

Okta

Family

API Token

Description

Okta is an identity and access management company. It provides cloud software that helps companies manage and secure user authentication into applications, and for developers to build identity controls into applications, website web services and devices.

The Core Okta API is the primary way that apps and services interact with Okta.

Security

Any hardcoded Okta Token is a potential secret reported by this detector.

Accidentally checking-in the token to source control repositories could compromise your Okta account.

Suspicious activity could be detected by checking the API Key associated logs on the platform.

Examples

okta_token=00tGZkpPtXAYpj7Ub2CwrVDtJePXrVVTUL3VLJatKe

Mitigation / Fix

  1. Remove the Token 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). API Key revocation can be handled from your API tab of the Okta dashboard.

  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.okta.com/docs/guides/create-an-api-token/main/