GH_SecretScanningAlert

A GitHub Advanced Security alert indicating a secret was accidentally committed to a repository

Represents a GitHub secret scanning alert detected in a repository. Secret scanning alerts are raised when GitHub detects a known secret pattern (such as an API key, token, or credential) committed to a repository. The alert captures the secret type, validity status, and current resolution state.

Created by: Git-HoundSecretScanningAlert

Edges

The tables below list edges defined by the GitHound extension only. Additional edges to or from this node may be created by other extensions.

Inbound Edges

Edge Type	Source Node Types	Traversable
GH_CanReadSecretScanningAlert	GH_OrgRole, GH_RepoRole	✅
GH_Contains	GH_Organization, GH_Repository, GH_Environment	❌

Outbound Edges

Edge Type	Destination Node Types	Traversable
GH_ValidToken	GH_User	✅

Properties

Property Name	Data Type	Description
objectid	string	A deterministic Base64-encoded ID derived from the organization, repository, and alert number.
id	string	Same as objectid.
name	string	The alert number.
repository_name	string	The name of the repository where the secret was detected.
repository_id	string	The node_id of the repository.
repository_url	string	The HTML URL of the repository.
secret_type	string	The type of secret detected (e.g., github_personal_access_token, aws_access_key_id).
secret_type_display_name	string	A human-readable name for the secret type.
validity	string	The validity status of the detected secret (e.g., active, inactive, unknown).
state	string	The alert state (e.g., open, resolved).
created_at	datetime	When the alert was created.
updated_at	datetime	When the alert was last updated.
url	string	The HTML URL to view the alert on GitHub.

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