security: disposition the one historical gitleaks finding (infra#326)
A Gitea PAT was pasted into a CD-watching curl command in a 2026-04-22
planning doc (c9310b10, last_eight 3105a670).
Verified dead before dispositioning it, rather than assuming: authenticating
GET /api/v1/user with that exact value returns 401. It was almost certainly
invalidated by the early-August rotation of the `mathias` PATs -- the same
rotation whose fan-out caused infra#260, where CI's stale copies kept
failing. So it was killed for unrelated reasons, by luck rather than by the
leak being noticed.
No rotation outstanding. `task security:gitleaks:history` now exits 0 here.
Used .gitleaksignore (per-finding fingerprint) rather than a path allowlist
in .gitleaks.toml: a path allowlist would also blind the working-tree scan
that gates commits. Verified both directions -- history 1 -> 0, working tree
still clean.
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# Historical gitleaks findings, dispositioned (infra#326 / infra#317).
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#
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# WHY THIS FILE AND NOT .gitleaks.toml:
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# This is a finding in git HISTORY, surfaced by the full-history audit
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# (`task security:gitleaks:history`). The working-tree scan that gates commits
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# (`task security:gitleaks`, the pre-commit hook, CI) is clean. Suppressing by
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# PATH in .gitleaks.toml would also blind the working-tree scan for that file
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# forever; a fingerprint pins one finding in one commit, so a NEW secret in the
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# same file still fires.
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#
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# History is not rewritten here, so the remediation for a real leak is
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# ROTATION -- making the committed value worthless -- never scrubbing.
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#
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# Dispositioned 2026-08-29. Re-check with: task security:gitleaks:history
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# --- Real credential, ALREADY DEAD -------------------------------------------
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# A Gitea PAT pasted into a CD-watching command in a planning doc
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# (`Authorization: token <40-hex>`, last_eight 3105a670).
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#
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# Verified dead 2026-08-29: authenticating against
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# GET https://git.d-ma.be/api/v1/user with this exact value returns 401, so the
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# committed token no longer grants anything. It was almost certainly invalidated
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# by the early-August rotation of the `mathias` PATs (the same rotation whose
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# fan-out caused infra#260, where CI copies of the old value kept failing).
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#
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# No rotation action outstanding. Kept as a fingerprint rather than removed from
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# history because history cannot be rewritten here.
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#
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# The generalisable lesson is recorded separately: a credential printed into a
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# doc/transcript is permanent, so the only remedy is rotating it -- which in
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# this case had already happened for unrelated reasons, by luck rather than by
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# the leak being noticed.
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c9310b1079478bf4430b0a2dfb25445d7ccc9b59:docs/superpowers/plans/2026-04-22-phase4-attempt-wiring.md:curl-auth-header:1053
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