B107: hardcoded_password_defaultΒΆ

bandit.plugins.general_hardcoded_password.hardcoded_password_default(context)

B107: Test for use of hard-coded password argument defaults

The use of hard-coded passwords increases the possibility of password guessing tremendously. This plugin test looks for all function definitions that specify a default string literal for some argument. It checks that the argument does not look like a password.

Variables are considered to look like a password if they have match any one of:

  • “password”
  • “pass”
  • “passwd”
  • “pwd”
  • “secret”
  • “token”
  • “secrete”

Note: this can be noisy and may generate false positives.

Config Options:

None

Example: 
>> Issue: [B107:hardcoded_password_default] Possible hardcoded
password: 'Admin'
   Severity: Low   Confidence: Medium
   Location: ./examples/hardcoded-passwords.py:1

1    def someFunction(user, password="Admin"):
2      print("Hi " + user)

See also

New in version 0.9.0.