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Supply Chain Attack on Axios Pulls Malicious Dependency from npm
A supply chain attack on Axios introduced a malicious dependency, plain-crypto-js@4.2.1, published minutes earlier and absent from the project’s GitHub releases.
@sigstore/verify
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A library for verifying Sigstore signatures.
The openpgp package provides a comprehensive suite of OpenPGP encryption, decryption, and key management functionalities. While it also focuses on verifying the integrity and authenticity of data, it uses the OpenPGP standard, which is different from the Sigstore approach utilized by @sigstore/verify.
jsonwebtoken is a package for implementing JSON Web Tokens (JWT). It allows for the creation and verification of JWTs for secure transmission of information between parties. Although it deals with the concept of verifying tokens, it is more focused on authentication and information exchange rather than verifying software artifacts like @sigstore/verify.
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Verification of Sigstore signatures
The npm package @sigstore/verify receives a total of 6,034,165 weekly downloads. As such, @sigstore/verify popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @sigstore/verify demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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