Is ec2-metadata safe to use?

ec2-metadata has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (3.0.0). DepScope rates its health at 59/100 (high risk).

What is the latest version of ec2-metadata?

The latest version of ec2-metadata is 3.0.0, released 2026-02-11.

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of ec2-metadata.

No, ec2-metadata is actively maintained. Latest release: 3.0.0 (2026-02-11).

Popular alternatives to ec2-metadata in PyPI include: requests, charset_normalizer, cryptography, aiobotocore, pydantic.

ec2-metadata is licensed under MIT.

pypiv3.0.0

An easy interface to query the EC2 metadata API, with caching.

License MITpermissive32 versions1 deps

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 59/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

20/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

12/15

maturity

2/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Quality signals

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Dependencies (1)

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

curl https://depscope.dev/api/check/pypi/ec2-metadata