diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 399da46e..9211c54d 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # and "Missing User Instruction" since 2ms container is stopped after scan
 
 # Builder image
-FROM checkmarx/go:1.27.0-r1-7ff3a27a305109@sha256:7ff3a27a305109341ebf351a1421172d7ee41aeeeb0609451ddb6c8ee5d144b3 AS builder
+FROM checkmarx/go:1.27.1-r0-424cf19b9e848d@sha256:424cf19b9e848d86bbf0ed45b216d782f064bfb6b1dd7eba7f5a8cc3f750088f AS builder
 
 WORKDIR /app
 
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ COPY . .
 RUN GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build -buildvcs=false -ldflags="-s -w" -a -o /app/2ms .
 
 # Runtime image
-FROM checkmarx/git:2.55.0-r5-d0ccbb0b82fcb8@sha256:d0ccbb0b82fcb8c84ee36087b47eefbf59f8259c4f902fbb3591acd1ee00c546
+FROM checkmarx/git:2.55.0-r7-193d1e713216b7@sha256:193d1e713216b75b63eb05c3ebac0185620565b10a33d2ca1b3a89e8bd46c4fc
 
 WORKDIR /app
 
diff --git a/engine/engine.go b/engine/engine.go
index 9f696971..6c2e330b 100644
--- a/engine/engine.go
+++ b/engine/engine.go
@@ -527,6 +527,39 @@ func GetRulesCommand(engineConfig *EngineConfig) *cobra.Command {
 	}
 }
 
+// secretSuffixTailRegexes match, at the end of a string, whatever a rule's secret-suffix
+// regex would have matched right after the secret's capture group. They're derived directly
+// from ruledefine.SecretSuffix and ruledefine.SecretSuffixIncludingXml
+var secretSuffixTailRegexes = []*regexp.Regexp{
+	regexp.MustCompile(strings.TrimPrefix(ruledefine.SecretSuffix, ")") + "$"),
+	regexp.MustCompile(strings.TrimPrefix(ruledefine.SecretSuffixIncludingXml, ")") + "$"),
+}
+
+// trimSecretSuffixOverlap returns endColumn adjusted so it no longer includes the trailing
+// boundary characters matched by the rule's secret-suffix regex.
+//
+// Both suffix regexes always have a zero-width `$` alternative, so they'll always "match" at
+// endColumn itself; what matters is the longest overlap found across both regexes, not merely
+// whether one of them matched.
+func trimSecretSuffixOverlap(line string, endColumn int) int {
+	if endColumn <= 0 || endColumn > len(line) {
+		return endColumn
+	}
+	head := line[:endColumn]
+
+	overlap := 0
+	for _, re := range secretSuffixTailRegexes {
+		matches := re.FindStringIndex(head)
+		if matches != nil {
+			matchedSuffixLength := matches[1] - matches[0]
+			if matchedSuffixLength > overlap {
+				overlap = matchedSuffixLength
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return endColumn - overlap
+}
+
 // buildSecret creates a secret object from the given source item and finding
 func buildSecret(
 	ctx context.Context,
@@ -547,13 +580,14 @@ func buildSecret(
 
 	hasNewline := strings.HasPrefix(value.Line, "\n")
 
+	adjustedEndColumn := trimSecretSuffixOverlap(value.Line, value.EndColumn)
+
 	if hasNewline {
 		value.Line = strings.TrimPrefix(value.Line, "\n")
 	}
 	value.Line = strings.ReplaceAll(value.Line, "\r", "")
 
 	adjustedStartColumn := value.StartColumn
-	adjustedEndColumn := value.EndColumn
 	if hasNewline {
 		adjustedStartColumn--
 		adjustedEndColumn--
diff --git a/engine/engine_test.go b/engine/engine_test.go
index 0fc7cabb..30e3ed49 100644
--- a/engine/engine_test.go
+++ b/engine/engine_test.go
@@ -476,9 +476,19 @@ func TestDetectChunks(t *testing.T) {
 
 func TestSecretsColumnIndex(t *testing.T) {
 
+	const defaultSecret = "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9"
+
+	xmlSuffixSecret := "AIzaSyATD"
+	xmlSuffixLine := "<string>" + xmlSuffixSecret + "</string>"
+	xmlSuffixSecretStart := len("<string>") + 1
+	xmlSuffixSecretEnd := xmlSuffixSecretStart + len(xmlSuffixSecret) - 1
+
+	generalSuffixSecret := "5qnwhuk"
+
 	tests := []struct {
 		name                string
 		lineContent         string
+		secret              string
 		startColumn         int
 		endColumn           int
 		expectedLineContent string
@@ -488,6 +498,7 @@ func TestSecretsColumnIndex(t *testing.T) {
 		{
 			name:                "secret on first line without newline",
 			lineContent:         `let apikey = "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9"`,
+			secret:              defaultSecret,
 			startColumn:         14,
 			endColumn:           50,
 			expectedLineContent: `let apikey = "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9"`,
@@ -497,6 +508,7 @@ func TestSecretsColumnIndex(t *testing.T) {
 		{
 			name:                "secret with leading newline",
 			lineContent:         "\nlet apikey = \"eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9\"",
+			secret:              defaultSecret,
 			startColumn:         15,
 			endColumn:           51,
 			expectedLineContent: `let apikey = "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9"`,
@@ -506,6 +518,7 @@ func TestSecretsColumnIndex(t *testing.T) {
 		{
 			name:                "leading newline followed by tab indentation",
 			lineContent:         "\n	let apikey = \"eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9\"",
+			secret:              defaultSecret,
 			startColumn:         2,
 			endColumn:           7,
 			expectedLineContent: "	let apikey = \"eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9\"",
@@ -515,6 +528,7 @@ func TestSecretsColumnIndex(t *testing.T) {
 		{
 			name:                "leading newline followed by tab indentation with special character",
 			lineContent:         "\n\tlet apikey€ = \"eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9\"",
+			secret:              defaultSecret,
 			startColumn:         2,
 			endColumn:           7,
 			expectedLineContent: "	let apikey€ = \"eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9\"",
@@ -524,12 +538,73 @@ func TestSecretsColumnIndex(t *testing.T) {
 		{
 			name:                "newline with content larger than context limit",
 			lineContent:         "\n" + strings.Repeat("A", 500) + "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9" + strings.Repeat("B", 500),
+			secret:              defaultSecret,
 			startColumn:         501,
 			endColumn:           536,
 			expectedLineContent: strings.Repeat("A", 250) + "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9" + strings.Repeat("B", 250),
 			expectedStartColumn: 500,
 			expectedEndColumn:   535,
 		},
+		{
+			name:                "generic-api-key xml suffix consumes closing tag",
+			lineContent:         xmlSuffixLine,
+			secret:              xmlSuffixSecret,
+			startColumn:         xmlSuffixSecretStart,
+			endColumn:           xmlSuffixSecretEnd + len("</string>"),
+			expectedLineContent: xmlSuffixLine,
+			expectedStartColumn: xmlSuffixSecretStart,
+			expectedEndColumn:   xmlSuffixSecretEnd,
+		},
+		{
+			name:                "secret followed by carriage return",
+			lineContent:         generalSuffixSecret + "\r",
+			secret:              generalSuffixSecret,
+			startColumn:         1,
+			endColumn:           len(generalSuffixSecret + "\r"),
+			expectedLineContent: generalSuffixSecret, // buildSecret strips all \r bytes from Line
+			expectedStartColumn: 1,
+			expectedEndColumn:   len(generalSuffixSecret),
+		},
+		{
+			name:                "secret followed by newline",
+			lineContent:         generalSuffixSecret + "\n",
+			secret:              generalSuffixSecret,
+			startColumn:         1,
+			endColumn:           len(generalSuffixSecret + "\n"),
+			expectedLineContent: generalSuffixSecret + "\n",
+			expectedStartColumn: 1,
+			expectedEndColumn:   len(generalSuffixSecret),
+		},
+		{
+			name:                "secret followed by semicolon",
+			lineContent:         generalSuffixSecret + ";",
+			secret:              generalSuffixSecret,
+			startColumn:         1,
+			endColumn:           len(generalSuffixSecret + ";"),
+			expectedLineContent: generalSuffixSecret + ";",
+			expectedStartColumn: 1,
+			expectedEndColumn:   len(generalSuffixSecret),
+		},
+		{
+			name:                `secret followed by double quote`,
+			lineContent:         generalSuffixSecret + `"`,
+			secret:              generalSuffixSecret,
+			startColumn:         1,
+			endColumn:           len(generalSuffixSecret + `"`),
+			expectedLineContent: generalSuffixSecret + `"`,
+			expectedStartColumn: 1,
+			expectedEndColumn:   len(generalSuffixSecret),
+		},
+		{
+			name:                `secret followed by literal backslash-r backslash-n`,
+			lineContent:         generalSuffixSecret + `\r\n`,
+			secret:              generalSuffixSecret,
+			startColumn:         1,
+			endColumn:           len(generalSuffixSecret + `\r\n`),
+			expectedLineContent: generalSuffixSecret + `\r\n`,
+			expectedStartColumn: 1,
+			expectedEndColumn:   len(generalSuffixSecret + `\r`),
+		},
 	}
 	for _, tt := range tests {
 		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
@@ -539,7 +614,7 @@ func TestSecretsColumnIndex(t *testing.T) {
 			finding := report.Finding{
 				StartColumn: tt.startColumn,
 				EndColumn:   tt.endColumn,
-				Secret:      "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9",
+				Secret:      tt.secret,
 				RuleID:      "test-rule",
 				Description: "Test Description",
 				Line:        tt.lineContent,
diff --git a/engine/rules/ruledefine/utils.go b/engine/rules/ruledefine/utils.go
index 529b628a..4993317a 100644
--- a/engine/rules/ruledefine/utils.go
+++ b/engine/rules/ruledefine/utils.go
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ const (
 	secretPrefixUnique       = `\b(`
 	secretPrefix             = `[\x60'"\s=]{0,20}(`                                       //nolint:gosec // This is a regex pattern
 	SecretSuffix             = `)(?:[\x60'"\s;]|\\[nr]|$)`                                //nolint:gosec // This is a regex pattern
-	secretSuffixIncludingXml = `)(?:['|\"|\n|\r|\s|\x60|;]|\\n|\\r|$|\s{0,10}<\/string>)` //nolint:gosec // This is a regex pattern
+	SecretSuffixIncludingXml = `)(?:['|\"|\n|\r|\s|\x60|;]|\\n|\\r|$|\s{0,10}<\/string>)` //nolint:gosec // This is a regex pattern
 )
 
 func generateSemiGenericRegex(identifiers []string, secretRegex string, isCaseInsensitive bool) *regexp.Regexp {
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ func generateSemiGenericRegexIncludingXml(identifiers []string, secretRegex stri
 	sb.WriteString(operator)
 	sb.WriteString(secretPrefix)
 	sb.WriteString(secretRegex)
-	sb.WriteString(secretSuffixIncludingXml)
+	sb.WriteString(SecretSuffixIncludingXml)
 	return regexp.MustCompile(sb.String())
 }