Security · 1h ago
Redis URL Leaks Password to AI Agents Due to Regex Bug
A bug in ContextOS, a tool that builds context packs for AI coding agents, failed to redact passwords in Redis URLs because the regex required a username segment. Redis URIs like redis://:password@host have no username, so the password was passed unredacted to LLM agents. The fix changed one character in the regex pattern.
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The one-character fix highlights how subtle edge cases in secret detection can expose credentials, especially as AI agents gain more access to codebases.
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