fix(security): credential redaction in 0f8b000 misses JSON bodies access_token, refresh_token, clientSecret, and password print verbatim with --verbose

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
88/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
go
Domain
cli, security

Research direction

Start with redactSensitiveContent and the existing patterns, then run pkg/config/redact_probe_test.go using go test ./pkg/config/ -run TestRedactProbe -v. Check the call sites noted in keycloak_client.go:96 and microcks_client.go:371. Done means the six probe failures pass and access_token, refresh_token, clientSecret, and password no longer print verbatim in verbose output.

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Description

component/cli kind/bug

Problem

i added credential redaction to verbose HTTP dumps. It works for Authorization headers but misses both places where secrets actually appear.

Leak 1 Keycloak token response (keycloak_client.go:96)

The response body is JSON. The regex expects name=value (form encoding), so "access_token":"eyJ..." prints verbatim.

Leak 2 create-test request body (microcks_client.go:371)

OAuth2ClientContext is marshalled into the POST body. Fields clientSecret, password, and refreshToken aren't in the pattern at all.

The header redaction fires correctly, which is exactly what makes this easy to miss:

Authorization: [REDACTED]       ← works
{"oAuth2Context":{"clientSecret":"SECRET","password":"SECRET",...}}   ← leaks

Root Cause

// only matches name=value — never fires on JSON bodies
var sensitiveParamPattern = regexp.MustCompile(
    `(?i)(access_token|refresh_token|id_token|code)=([^&\s]+)`,
)

Apply it alongside the existing patterns in redactSensitiveContent.

Reproduce

Drop into pkg/config/redact_probe_test.go and run go test ./pkg/config/ -run TestRedactProbe -v — 6 FAILs, all confirmed against the real function.

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