AutoCore Secret Exposure Response
A containment and recovery boundary for suspected credential exposure.
Treat a suspected secret exposure as an incident. Preserve minimal evidence, revoke or rotate the affected credential, validate dependent providers, and document residual risk without copying the secret into tickets or reports.
Release candidate source
This article reflects the audited AutoCore source revision 7a504f6e430c16d4fcb03ebdea3cc3fb7816df60 and immutable release-candidate tag v1.0.0-rc.1 at 9edfb109f44cc80385784c694b96392cfc04e70f. Configuration and external provider behavior remain deployment-dependent.
Source boundary
| Control | Source-verified behavior |
|---|---|
| Contain | Disable the affected integration or access path when safe and prevent further publication. |
| Rotate | Revoke or rotate the credential at its authoritative provider, then update the runtime secret store. |
| Validate | Check authentication, storage, mail, search, payment, and webhook health according to the affected class. |
| Evidence | Record secret class, discovery time, exposure surface, actions, and verification—not the secret value. |
| Escalate | Use the operator's approved incident and legal escalation paths; this article does not invent contacts or SLAs. |
High-risk operation
Use explicit authorization, a written reason, a confirmation gate, and post-action verification. Documentation does not grant permission to change a deployment.
Operational controls
Use the smallest verified control for the task. Keep provider, host, legal, and operator responsibilities separate from application behavior. When a control is not implemented or not verified, leave it disabled or mark it as a limitation.
Verification
Verify the route, relevant API or configuration state, negative path, audit/evidence result, and public effect before closing the task. Record unknown or configuration-dependent behavior as a limitation.