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New used the Payloads map it was given, or DefaultConfig.Payloads when
none was set, as its working set and wrote the deduped and enriched
word lists back into it. Words enriched from one target then showed up
in later New calls that used the default payloads, and concurrent New
calls wrote to the same map, which races and can crash the process
with "concurrent map writes".

New now copies the map before deduping and enriching it, so each
Mutator owns its payloads and neither the caller's map nor
DefaultConfig.Payloads changes.

The copy is still stored in opts.Payloads, so callers that read it
after New keep working. Reusing one Options value for a second New
call therefore starts from the first call's payloads; the New doc
comment now says to pass a new Options value each time.

Fixes: #308

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed payload handling so enrichment in one configuration does not affect later configurations.
  • Creating a mutator no longer changes payload data supplied by the caller or shared defaults.
  • Concurrent configurations now receive their own domain-specific payloads.

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Walkthrough

New clones the selected payload map into Options before deduplication and enrichment. Tests cover payload isolation across calls, caller-owned slices, and concurrent enrichment.

Changes

Payload Isolation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Payload copy and validation mutator.go, mutator_test.go	New clones the selected payload map before deduplication and enrichment. Tests check that payloads do not leak across calls, caller-owned slices remain unchanged, and concurrent enrichment calls keep their domain-derived payloads separate. The documentation clarifies that New writes defaults and payloads into Options.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Suggested reviewers: mzack9999

Merge Risk: Low · up to 988cb

The main isolation fix is covered, but modifying payloads through a returned mutator can still affect later calls. Clone the slices before merging, or accept this bounded risk.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 33.33% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preventing New from modifying shared payload maps.
Linked Issues check		Issue [#308] requires isolated payloads across separate New calls and safe concurrent New calls with separate Options values. In mutator.go, New selects the configured payload map, assigns maps.Clone(…
Out of Scope Changes check		The reviewed changes are limited to payload ownership in New and tests for the linked issue behavior. The Options and New comments document the changed ownership and reuse behavior. The test helper on…

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Explanation

Issue [#308] requires isolated payloads across separate New calls and safe concurrent New calls with separate Options values. In mutator.go, New selects the configured payload map, assigns maps.Clone(payloads) to opts.Payloads, and performs deduplication and enrichment on that clone. This prevents writes to DefaultConfig.Payloads and caller-owned maps. The added tests cover sequential enrichment isolation, caller-map preservation, and concurrent enriched New calls. The concurrent test verifies that each mutator contains only its own domain word and the default word.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The reviewed changes are limited to payload ownership in New and tests for the linked issue behavior. The Options and New comments document the changed ownership and reuse behavior. The test helper only isolates DefaultConfig during tests. No unrelated product behavior or unrelated tests are present in the supplied evidence.

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Docstring coverage is 33.33% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 3 functions across 2 files.

Resolution

Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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_{A rabbit checks the payload map,
Then copies it before the hop.
No borrowed words slip through the gate,
Each domain keeps its own small crate.
The carrots race; the maps stay neat.}

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Review comments at @mutator.go:
- Line 155: Update the Payloads cloning in the options initialization so each
[]string value gets independent backing storage, not just a cloned map. Locate
the assignment to opts.Payloads and clone each slice while preserving its keys
and contents, preventing writes through the new options from mutating caller or
default payloads.

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Supported by static analysis

Script executed:

sed -n '1,235p' mutator.go
rg -n 'func .*Dedup|func .*dedup|Payloads|DefaultConfig' mutator.go

Repository: projectdiscovery/alterx

Length of output: 8202

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Clone each payload slice, not only the map.

maps.Clone makes a shallow copy. The new map and the source map still share each []string backing array. For keys that deduplication and enrichment do not rewrite, m.Options.Payloads[k] shares storage with the caller's slice or with DefaultConfig.Payloads[k]. A write such as m.Options.Payloads[k][i] = ... then changes the shared default, and a later New call with default payloads uses the changed value.

Suggested fix

 	"regexp"
+	"slices"
 	"strings"

 		opts.Payloads = maps.Clone(payloads)
+		for k, v := range opts.Payloads {
+			opts.Payloads[k] = slices.Clone(v)
+		}

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Review comment at @mutator.go at line 155:
Update the Payloads cloning in the options initialization so each []string value
gets independent backing storage, not just a cloned map. Locate the assignment
to opts.Payloads and clone each slice while preserving its keys and contents,
preventing writes through the new options from mutating caller or default
payloads.

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