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by DenseComet 1568 days ago
Looking at this docs page[1], it doesn't look like the execution environment gets reset completely between each request. Do you partition free/paying users or public/private repos? It seems like an attacker could gain a foothold for longer than just their request with malicious code.

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/runtimes-contex...
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rlonn 1568 days ago
That's a good observation. I don't currently do any partitioning and I think I have to read up a bit on exactly how Lambda executes Go functions. If they keep the program state between executions there are probably some cleanup I should be doing. If not, I think I'm safe as script code and everything related to a new script execution gets sent as parameters in the Lambda invocation.

Edit: I'm going to add some cleanup regardless.

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