Abstract: A code remediation system accesses a programming code including vulnerabilities such as potential secrets and remediates at least a subset of the potential secrets to generate modified programming code wherein the subset of potential secrets which are determined to be actual secrets are replaced with access mechanisms to storage locations on a vault wherein the actual secrets are secured. To identify the subset of potential secrets forming the actual secrets to be remediated, the code remediation system is configured to filter out false positives among the potential secrets and identify true positives. When an application executing the modified code encounters an access mechanism, it accesses the vault to retrieve the actual secrets.