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10 npm Typosquatted Packages Deploy Multi-Stage Credential Harvester
Socket researchers found 10 typosquatted npm packages that auto-run on install, show fake CAPTCHAs, fingerprint by IP, and deploy a credential stealer.
@aws-sdk/credential-provider-sso
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AWS credential provider that exchanges a resolved SSO login token file for temporary AWS credentials
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You probably shouldn't, at least directly. Please use @aws-sdk/credential-providers instead.
The aws-sdk package is the official AWS SDK for JavaScript. While it supports various methods of authentication, including credentials from environment variables, shared credentials file, and IAM roles for EC2 instances, it does not specifically focus on SSO credential retrieval like @aws-sdk/credential-provider-sso. However, it provides a broader scope of AWS service interactions.
AWS Amplify is a development platform for building secure, scalable mobile and web applications. It includes support for authentication via Amazon Cognito, which can be integrated with SSO, but it's more focused on application development rather than directly providing AWS credentials for SDK clients. Compared to @aws-sdk/credential-provider-sso, AWS Amplify offers a higher-level abstraction for authentication and authorization.
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AWS credential provider that exchanges a resolved SSO login token file for temporary AWS credentials
The npm package @aws-sdk/credential-provider-sso receives a total of 23,009,674 weekly downloads. As such, @aws-sdk/credential-provider-sso popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @aws-sdk/credential-provider-sso demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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