# Hardcoded cloud API credentials in Python — Agent PR X-Ray

> Canonical page: https://codevetter.com/xray/py-hardcoded-secret

This is an adjudicated synthetic benchmark example, not a claim about an uploaded repository.

## Source

- Corpus: codevetter-public-benchmark/py-hardcoded-secret
- Language: python
- Category: security
- Evidence state: benchmark_ground_truth

## Finding

- Severity: high
- Title: hardcoded secret
- Summary: A live AWS access key id and secret access key are hardcoded in source. Anyone with repository access can extract and abuse these credentials.
- Source anchor: `source.py:10`

## Verification boundary

The static finding is qualified against benchmark ground truth. No exact-current executable test or audience validation is included in this example, so those stages remain unverified.

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