diff --git a/src/lib/local/query.test.ts b/src/lib/local/query.test.ts
index 4eef0ba..1bd1e1a 100644
--- a/src/lib/local/query.test.ts
+++ b/src/lib/local/query.test.ts
@@ -410,4 +410,20 @@ describe("searchFileContent", () => {
     expect(searchFileContent("needlecomparison", {}, db)[0]!.lineText).toBe(comparisonLine);
     expect(searchFileContent("needletype", {}, db)[0]!.lineText).toBe(typeLine);
   });
+
+  test("redacts DB_PASS assignments and Basic authorization credentials from emitted matches", () => {
+    const value = ["synthetic", "review", "value", "731"].join("-");
+    setup({
+      "db-config.txt": `needledb DB_PASS=${value}`,
+      "request.txt": `needlebasic Authorization: Basic ${value}`,
+    });
+
+    const dbPassHit = searchFileContent("needledb", {}, db)[0]!;
+    expect(dbPassHit.lineText.includes(value)).toBe(false);
+    expect(dbPassHit.lineText).toBe("needledb DB_PASS=[REDACTED]");
+
+    const basicHit = searchFileContent("needlebasic", {}, db)[0]!;
+    expect(basicHit.lineText.includes(value)).toBe(false);
+    expect(basicHit.lineText).toBe("needlebasic Authorization: Basic [REDACTED]");
+  });
 });
diff --git a/src/lib/redaction.test.ts b/src/lib/redaction.test.ts
index 7e9f196..0d44602 100644
--- a/src/lib/redaction.test.ts
+++ b/src/lib/redaction.test.ts
@@ -50,6 +50,20 @@ describe("redactCredentialBearingText", () => {
     );
   });
 
+  test("redacts DB_PASS assignments and Basic authorization credentials", () => {
+    const value = ["synthetic", "review", "value", "731"].join("-");
+
+    expect(redactCredentialBearingText(`DB_PASS=${value}`)).toBe(
+      `DB_PASS=${REDACTION_PLACEHOLDER}`,
+    );
+    expect(redactCredentialBearingText(`Authorization: Basic ${value}`)).toBe(
+      `Authorization: Basic ${REDACTION_PLACEHOLDER}`,
+    );
+    expect(redactCredentialBearingText(`authorization: basic ${value}`)).toBe(
+      `authorization: basic ${REDACTION_PLACEHOLDER}`,
+    );
+  });
+
   test("redacts common standalone credential token shapes", () => {
     const values = [
       ["sk-", "synthetic_token_123456789"].join(""),
diff --git a/src/lib/redaction.ts b/src/lib/redaction.ts
index 3897437..25dbede 100644
--- a/src/lib/redaction.ts
+++ b/src/lib/redaction.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import type { SearchResult } from "../types/index.js";
 export const REDACTION_PLACEHOLDER = "[REDACTED]";
 
 const SENSITIVE_KEY_SOURCE =
-  String.raw`\b[a-z0-9_-]*(?:api[_-]?key|access[_-]?key|secret(?:[_-]?key)?|client[_-]?secret|(?:auth|access|refresh)[_-]?token|token|password|passwd|pwd|passphrase|private[_-]?key)\b`;
+  String.raw`\b[a-z0-9_-]*(?:api[_-]?key|access[_-]?key|secret(?:[_-]?key)?|client[_-]?secret|(?:auth|access|refresh)[_-]?token|token|password|passwd|pwd|pass|passphrase|private[_-]?key)\b`;
 
 const SENSITIVE_EQUALS_ASSIGNMENT_PATTERN = new RegExp(
   `(${SENSITIVE_KEY_SOURCE}["'\\x60]?[\\s]*=[\\s]*)(?![=>])(["'\\x60]?).*$`,
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ const SENSITIVE_ASSIGNMENT_PATTERNS = [
 ] as const;
 
 const CREDENTIAL_URL_PATTERN = /([a-z][a-z0-9+.-]*:\/\/[^/\s:@]+:)([^@\s/]+)(@)/gi;
-const BEARER_TOKEN_PATTERN = /(\bBearer\s+)[a-z0-9._~+/-]{8,}=*/gi;
+const AUTHORIZATION_CREDENTIAL_PATTERN = /(\b(?:Bearer|Basic)\s+)[a-z0-9._~+/-]{8,}=*/gi;
 
 const INLINE_CREDENTIAL_PATTERNS: readonly RegExp[] = [
   /\bsk-[a-z0-9_-]{10,}\b/gi,
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ export function redactCredentialBearingText(text: string): string {
       `${prefix}${REDACTION_PLACEHOLDER}${suffix}`,
   );
   redacted = redacted.replace(
-    BEARER_TOKEN_PATTERN,
+    AUTHORIZATION_CREDENTIAL_PATTERN,
     (_match: string, prefix: string) => `${prefix}${REDACTION_PLACEHOLDER}`,
   );