Stackility

v0.8.2 suspicious
6.0
Medium Risk

Python CloudFormation utility

🤖 AI Analysis

Final verdict: SUSPICIOUS

The package shows some signs of potential risk, particularly concerning the handling of credentials and the lack of detailed metadata, which may indicate a less experienced or potentially suspicious maintainer.

  • Credential risk due to the use of getpass.getpass
  • Low metadata quality and maintainer activity
Per-check LLM notes
  • Network: No network calls detected, which is normal unless the package's functionality requires external API interactions.
  • Shell: No shell execution detected, which is normal and suggests no immediate signs of malicious activities.
  • Obfuscation: No signs of obfuscation detected.
  • Credentials: The use of getpass.getpass indicates potential handling of sensitive credentials, which could be legitimate but also raises suspicion for credential harvesting.
  • Metadata: The maintainer has only one package and lacks PyPI classifiers, suggesting low effort or a new/inactive account.

🔬 Heuristic Checks

Outbound Network Calls

No suspicious network call patterns found

Code Obfuscation

No obfuscation patterns detected

Shell / Subprocess Execution

No shell execution patterns detected

Credential Harvesting score 5.0

Found 2 credential access pattern(s)

  • a1 = getpass.getpass(prompt=prompt1) a2 = getpass.getpass
  • a2 = getpass.getpass(prompt=prompt2) if a1 == a2:
Typosquatting

No typosquatting candidates detected

Registered Email Domain

Email domain looks legitimate: gmail.com

Suspicious Page Links

All external links appear legitimate

Git Repository History

Repository muckamuck/stackility appears legitimate

Maintainer History score 4.0

2 maintainer concern(s) found

  • Author "Chuck Muckamuck" appears to have only 1 package on PyPI (new or inactive account)
  • Package has no PyPI classifiers (low effort / metadata quality)
Known CVE Vulnerabilities

No known vulnerabilities found in OSV database.

💡 AI App Starter Prompt

Use this prompt to build a project with Stackility
Create a cloud infrastructure management tool using Python's 'Stackility' package. This tool will allow users to easily deploy and manage AWS CloudFormation stacks directly from their command line interface. The goal is to simplify the process of setting up and tearing down cloud resources for development and testing environments.

### Project Scope:
1. **User Authentication**: Implement basic user authentication to ensure only authorized users can create, update, or delete CloudFormation stacks.
2. **Stack Management**: Users should be able to:
   - List all available stacks.
   - Create new stacks from provided templates.
   - Update existing stacks with new parameters.
   - Delete stacks when they are no longer needed.
3. **Template Validation**: Before deploying a stack, validate the template against AWS CloudFormation rules to prevent deployment failures due to template errors.
4. **Logging and Monitoring**: Integrate logging to track stack operations and provide feedback on the status of deployments.
5. **Interactive CLI**: Develop an interactive command-line interface that guides users through the stack management process.

### Utilizing Stackility Package:
- Use Stackility to interact with AWS CloudFormation APIs for stack operations.
- Leverage Stackility's utility functions for template validation and error handling.
- Implement Stackility's event handling mechanisms to monitor stack creation and deletion processes.

### Suggested Features:
- **Parameter Override Support**: Allow users to override default parameters in the CloudFormation templates during stack creation.
- **Version Control Integration**: Enable integration with version control systems like Git to manage changes to CloudFormation templates.
- **Custom Resource Handlers**: Provide support for custom resource handlers within CloudFormation templates to extend functionality.
- **Rollback Mechanism**: Implement a rollback mechanism for failed deployments to restore the environment to its previous state.

Your task is to design and implement this tool from scratch, ensuring it is user-friendly, efficient, and robust. Focus on leveraging Stackility's capabilities to streamline the interaction with AWS CloudFormation.