feat(EXPOSED_SECRETS): detect common real-world credential formats

[dmchaledev]

Problem

The EXPOSED_SECRETS rule (CRITICAL — the scanner's headline "Potential Secret Exposed" check) only matched a thin set of vendor prefixes: OpenAI sk-, GitHub ghp_, AWS AKIA, plus an inline password= assignment. Several credential formats that routinely appear in real MCP configs slipped through entirely, so a config carrying them produced 0 findings and PASSED.

Verified against main (built CLI) — this config scans clean today:

{
  "transport": { "url": "https://x.example.com", "tls": true,
    "auth": { "type": "bearer", "token": "sk-ant-api03-…" } },   // Anthropic key
  "rateLimit": { "enabled": true },
  "tools": [
    { "name": "db",    "description": "postgres://admin:SuperSecret123@db.internal:5432/app" },
    { "name": "slack", "description": "xoxb-…" },
    { "name": "gcp",   "description": "AIzaSy…" }
  ]
}

$ node dist/cli.js config.json --format=table
Found 0 finding(s)  →  PASSED        # 4 hardcoded secrets, none detected

For a tool sold as a CI/CD secret-detection gate, missing an Anthropic key, a Slack/Google/Stripe token, a PEM private key, or credentials embedded in a connection-string URL is a meaningful false negative.

Changes

Localized to src/rules/runtime-rules.ts + tests — no new dependencies:

• Add patterns for Anthropic (sk-ant-), OpenAI project keys (sk-proj-), GitHub fine-grained PATs (github_pat_), Google API keys (AIza…), Slack tokens (xox[baprs]-), Stripe live keys ([sr]k_live_), PEM private-key blocks, and credentials embedded in connection-string URLs (scheme://user:pass@host).
• Fix the AWS pattern — removed the erroneous case-insensitive flag (AKIA IDs are strictly uppercase; /i would flag any lowercase akia… substring).
• Name the matched credential type in the finding's description and evidence so users know what was found.
• Redact matched values (short prefix + length) so the scanner never echoes a full secret into logs or uploaded SARIF.

The same config now correctly fails:

CRITICAL | EXPOSED_SECRETS | Potential Secret Exposed in Configuration
# description: "…4 hardcoded secret(s) (Anthropic API key, Credentials in URL, Slack token, Google API key)…"

False-positive guardrails

Patterns are anchored on distinctive prefixes/structures, so:

• A high-entropy opaque token without a known prefix stays clean.
• A plain URL without userinfo (https://api.example.com, wss://…) does not match the connection-string pattern.
• The JWT-style bearer token in examples/secure-config.json stays clean — secure-config.json still PASSES and vulnerable-config.json is unchanged (no new findings).

Tests

+15 cases covering each new credential format, the redaction behavior, the multi-secret summary, and the no-false-positive guards. Full suite: 133 passing (was 118). lint and typecheck clean.

Note: a couple of sample tokens in the tests are assembled from string fragments at runtime, so no full token literal sits in source — otherwise GitHub push protection (rightly) blocks the commit.

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