Security Misconfiguration: Hard-coded Secret

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Dear Colleague,

We are looking to find ways to help developers find security misconfigurations, i.e., Kubernetes manifest configurations that violate security best practices for Kubernetes manifests.

We have noticed hard-coded secrets, which are security misconfigurations, and violation of security best practices for Kubernetes manifests (reff: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.15275.pdf).

Location:

https://github.com/ganrad/k8s-springboot-data-rest/blob/92d297e99328b2f9c8ef4fa5ac76cf1ffb8c7852/extensions/k8s-dash-deploy/k8s-scripts/mysql-secret.yaml#L10

Please fix this misconfiguration by storing secrets in tools, such as Vault (https://www.vaultproject.io/). We would like to hear if you agree to fix this misconfiguration or have fixed the misconfiguration.