Bug 2569496

Summary: CVE-2026-124039 gitleaks: gitleaks: Credential disclosure via insecure report file permissions [fedora-all]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Srikanth Balasubramanian <sbalasub>
Component: gitleaksAssignee: Mikel Olasagasti Uranga <mikel>
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Description Srikanth Balasubramanian 2026-11-10 12:16:07 UTC 
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

Gitleaks through 8.30.1 contains an incorrect permission assignment vulnerability that allows local users to read scan reports because cmd/root.go creates the --report-path file with os.Create and default permissions. Unless --redact is passed, other local users on shared hosts or CI runners can read plaintext secrets and matching lines to obtain discovered credentials.