False positive: Env var is from config, not vault, and contains the name of another env var
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**Description of the false positive**
This flagged for outputting the value of an environment variable to logs. Generally, that could be a problem. In this case, the env var clearly contained the name of another env var to look in for the secret. Is there a way to not flag in this situation? For example, could we determine that this environment variable came from a k8s env var (where secrets are not allowed) as opposed to from vault?
**Code samples or links to source code**
https://github.com/github/blackbird/blob/d5fc30382331e6f5cd03c7f8695afadeeb631075/crates/config/src/embeddings.rs#L76-L79
**URL to the alert on GitHub code scanning (optional)**
https://github.com/github/blackbird/security/code-scanning/5068
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