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bolt12: add InvoiceError onion message replies

This commit adds support in LND for a new Lightning protocol message called InvoiceError. It is used to politely tell another node why their payment invoice or invoice request was rejected, sent privately through an onion-routed message. T…

New unsigned onion message type added with no cryptographic signature or bech32 formWriter-side validation prevents empty or non-UTF-8 error strings and disallowed suggested_value without erroneous_fieldReader-side BOLT 1 must-understand rule enforced: unknown even TLVs rejected, unknown odd TLVs tolerated
e279cdf1by bitromortac+567−04 files
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bolt12: validate Invoice messages

This commit adds validation checks for BOLT 12 invoices in the LND Lightning node software. It ensures invoices contain required fields (creation time, amount, payment hash, node ID, payment paths), match their originating invoice requests…

New validation gate added to Invoice.Encode() to reject malformed invoices before serializationReader rejects unknown even invoice TLV types and unknown even feature bitsReader enforces chain compatibility against activeChain
e0f04f17by bitromortac+1642−74 files
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bolt12: add Invoice struct and TLV codec

This commit adds new code to support BOLT 12 invoices in the LND Lightning node. It introduces a data structure, encoding/decoding logic, and helper functions to filter fallback addresses and blinded payment paths. There is no bug fix or s…

efbeef58by bitromortac+777−02 files
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ci: split PR severity workflow into classify and apply jobs

This commit is a hardening and cleanup of a GitHub Actions workflow that automatically labels pull requests by severity. It does not change any LND node code, wallet logic, or network protocol. Instead, it splits the workflow into two jobs…

Principle of least privilege: write token moved out of the model-bearing jobUntrusted input (model-generated comment) sanitized before privileged API useExternal action pinned to immutable commit SHA instead of mutable tag
05c62527by Olaoluwa Osuntokun+424−593 files
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funding: use channel state open channel

This commit is a straightforward internal code cleanup in LND's channel-opening machinery. It swaps one internal type name (channeldb.OpenChannel) for another (chanstate.OpenChannel) across function signatures in the funding manager and it…

03daaad4by ziggie+28−272 files
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chanstate: fix htlc copy

This commit fixes a bug in how the Lightning Network Daemon (LND) copies payment channel data. When the program made a copy of an HTLC (a pending payment in a Lightning channel), it failed to copy several important fields and did not prope…

Incomplete deep copy of security-relevant channel stateMissing fields in HTLC clone (RHash, OnionBlob, HtlcIndex, LogIndex)Nil-slice copy bug for Signature and ExtraData
b720fd5cby ziggie+88−42 files
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lnwallet+walletrpc: add SubmitPackage for v3 CPFP package relay

This commit adds a new RPC called SubmitPackage to LND's WalletKit. It lets users submit a group of related Bitcoin transactions together so a zero-fee parent can be accepted because a later child transaction pays its fee. This is a featur…

New RPC endpoint gated by onchain:write macaroon permissionPackage size bounded to 25 transactions to limit deserialization workFee-rate ceiling passed through to backend; explicit 0 disables limit
f55c0565by Elle Mouton+1019−21517 files
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bolt12: validate InvoiceRequest per BOLT 12 reader/writer requirements

This commit adds validation checks for BOLT 12 invoice requests in the LND Lightning node. It ensures that invoice requests follow protocol rules when being created (written) and received (read), rejecting malformed or non-compliant reques…

New input validation functions added for protocol messagesValidation now runs before encoding, preventing malformed outbound messagesOverflow guard added for amount*quantity calculation
8b4587b0by bitromortac+1703−53 files
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bolt12: add InvoiceRequest message struct and TLV codec

This commit adds a new data structure and serialization code for BOLT 12 invoice requests in the LND Lightning node. It is purely an implementation of a protocol message format and includes a round-trip test. There is no indication in the …

6bb9c7e8by bitromortac+282−02 files
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multi: upgrade to btcd v2 modules

This is a large dependency upgrade for the LND Lightning node software. It moves LND from older btcd Bitcoin library packages to new 'v2' packages and updates related wallet and network libraries. The commit is almost entirely mechanical i…

Large dependency upgrade touching core Bitcoin primitives (wire, txscript, chainhash, btcutil, psbt, address)Migration to new v2 module layout with API changes in address handlingPins new upstream releases (btcd 0.26.0, btcwallet 0.17.0, neutrino 0.18.0, lightning-onion 1.4.0) that may include undisclosed fixes
8047149cby Oli+1733−1789605 files
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discovery: fix panic in DNS fallback SRV lookup

This commit fixes a bug in LND's DNS seed bootstrap code that could crash the node. The code assumed every record in a DNS response was an SRV record, so a non-SRV record (like a normal A or CNAME record) would cause a panic. The fix safel…

Unconditional type assertion panic in DNS fallback pathMissing bounds check on LookupHost result before array indexingMissing network deadline on manually dialed DNS TCP connection
2a3642c6by Erick Cestari+252−52 files
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kvdb: remove stale xz replace

This commit removes a temporary security workaround in a Go module file. The workaround forced the use of a newer, fixed version of a compression library (xz) to avoid a known historical vulnerability. The commit message says the library i…

Removal of a dependency-level vulnerability workaroundReference to historical advisory GHSA-25xm-hr59-7c27 in deleted commentNo code changes; only go.mod cleanup
80f98a5eby ziggie+0−31 file
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Informational 12 AI analysisMessage 88 · Strong
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mod: remove stale xz replace

This commit removes an old workaround in LND's dependency file (go.mod) that pinned a safe version of the 'xz' compression library. The workaround was originally added because another dependency once pulled in a vulnerable version of xz. T…

Removal of a dependency override that was a security mitigation for CVE-2021-29482Commit explicitly references the original GHSA advisory (GHSA-25xm-hr59-7c27)No actual downgrade or re-introduction of the vulnerable module is visible in the diff
eeaa717eby ziggie+0−31 file
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lint: remove redundant loop var copies in test files

This commit is a cleanup-only change that removes unnecessary loop-variable copies in Go test files. Since Go 1.22, loop variables are already scoped per-iteration, so the old `x := x` workarounds are redundant. The change affects only tes…

aca27e27by Erick Cestari+0−271137 files
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mod: bump btcwallet to v0.16.18

This commit only changes a dependency version label in LND's package manifest. The underlying code (commit 70a94ea39e9c) stays exactly the same; the dependency is simply tagged as v0.16.18 instead of being referenced by a pseudo-version. T…

5b45ac81by yyforyongyu+3−32 files
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mod: bump kvdb to v1.5.1

This commit updates a dependency version in LND's build files. It bumps the internal 'kvdb' submodule from version 1.5.0 to 1.5.1 so that downstream projects importing kvdb directly do not pull in an older, vulnerable telemetry library (Op…

Dependency bump explicitly motivated by a known vulnerability identifier (GO-2026-4394)No source code changes in LND itself; only module metadata updatedVendor describes the root build as already unaffected, limiting direct security impact on LND
12686ac3by yyforyongyu+3−32 files
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multi: drop tor v2 onion production, keep wire codec faithful

This commit removes support for obsolete Tor v2 onion addresses from the Lightning Network Daemon (lnd). Tor v2 services were shut down by the Tor network in October 2021, so lnd will no longer create, accept, or dial v2 onion addresses. H…

Removal of deprecated network protocol (Tor v2) reduces attack surface and prevents futile/unsafe dials to unreachable services.Input validation added at operator boundaries (ParseAddressString, parseAddr) to reject v2 .onion addresses with a clear error.On-disk legacy key fallback now validates decrypted key type and rejects non-v3 (RSA1024) keys before passing them to Tor.
2ae1db83by Erick Cestari+780−32931 files
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multi: update neutrino dep to include chainimport and header state fix

This commit simply updates a software library dependency (neutrino) used by the Lightning Network Daemon (LND). The new version is said to add a faster way to import blockchain headers and fix a bug that could stop peer-to-peer header sync…

Dependency update to a newer tagged release of neutrinoCommit message references a 'ResetHeaderState fix' for P2P sync continuation after chain importNo direct code-level security fix is visible in the supplied diff
88fff36eby Olaoluwa Osuntokun+4−43 files
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lnwallet/rpcwallet: accept zero-value WitnessUtxo entries in remote-sign prep

This commit fixes a bug in LND's remote-signing setup where zero-value previous transaction outputs were wrongly ignored when preparing a PSBT for a remote signer. The most concrete affected use case is BIP-322 message attestation, where t…

Functional denial-of-service in remote-signer BIP-322 workflows due to PSBT rejectionIncorrect zero-value UTXO validation caused legitimate outputs to be droppedFix removes Value check while preserving non-empty PkScript sanity check
9f31668bby Olaoluwa Osuntokun+69−361 file
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lnwallet/rpcwallet: add unit tests for WitnessUtxo population helper

This commit only adds new unit tests for an existing helper function in LND's RPC wallet code. It does not change any production logic, so it cannot introduce a security vulnerability or directly fix one in the code being committed. The te…

6bb2c6f5by Olaoluwa Osuntokun+231−01 file
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Security candidatebolt12: add InvoiceError onion message repliesby bitromortac · e279cdf1 · Jul 21, 2026 · 4 filesMessage 73 · AdequateInformational 21Details
Commit message · bitromortac

bolt12: add InvoiceError onion message replies

InvoiceError is the negative-reply counterpart to an invoice, sent over
onion messages at namespace type 68 when the receiver rejects an invoice
request or the sender rejects a returned invoice. All three fields are
odd (informational): erroneous_field (TLV 1, the offending TLV type),
suggested_value (TLV 3, a valid replacement), and error (TLV 5, a UTF-8
explanation). Unlike Offer/InvoiceRequest/Invoice this type has no
bech32 form and no Merkle signature — it travels only inside onion
message payloads.

73/100 · AdequateMessage clarity
✓ Descriptive subject✓ Names a concrete action or component✓ Provides detailed explanatory context✓ Names security-relevant behavior explicitly
Why it was queued
signing boundary
AI analysis · Informational 21/100

This commit adds support in LND for a new Lightning protocol message called InvoiceError. It is used to politely tell another node why their payment invoice or invoice request was rejected, sent privately through an onion-routed message. The change is mostly a feature addition with built-in validation to make sure the error message is well-formed before it is sent.

Security candidatebolt12: validate Invoice messagesby bitromortac · e0f04f17 · Jul 9, 2026 · 4 filesMessage 73 · AdequateLow 36Details
Commit message · bitromortac

bolt12: validate Invoice messages

Implement the structural validators for the BOLT 12 invoice, adding
ValidateInvoiceWrite, ValidateInvoiceRead, ValidateInvoiceExpiry, and
ValidateInvoiceAgainstRequest.

The validators implement the spec writer and reader requirements in the
order the spec lists them. The reader confirms the signature TLV is
present but defers actual Schnorr verification until the merkle and
signing primitives land, mirroring the ValidateInvoiceRequestRead
precedent.

73/100 · AdequateMessage clarity
✓ Descriptive subject✓ Provides detailed explanatory context✓ Mentions testing or verification✓ Names security-relevant behavior explicitly
Why it was queued
signing boundarydefensive validation
AI analysis · Low 36/100

This commit adds validation checks for BOLT 12 invoices in the LND Lightning node software. It ensures invoices contain required fields (creation time, amount, payment hash, node ID, payment paths), match their originating invoice requests, and aren't expired or malformed before being encoded or accepted. The change is defensive: it rejects invalid invoices rather than letting them propagate, which helps prevent payment failures, confusion, or minor abuse. Signature verification is explicitly left for a future patch, so this is not a complete security fix on its own.

Security candidatebolt12: add Invoice struct and TLV codecby bitromortac · efbeef58 · Jul 9, 2026 · 2 filesMessage 73 · AdequateInformational 12Details
Commit message · bitromortac

bolt12: add Invoice struct and TLV codec

Add the BOLT 12 Invoice message: a struct mirroring the invoice_request
fields (types 0-91) plus the invoice-specific fields (types 160-176) and
the signature (type 240), together with its pure-TLV Encode/DecodeInvoice
codec and the UsableFallbackAddresses accessor that applies the spec's
MUST-ignore filter.

Additionally, add the NewInvoiceFromRequest constructor to build an Invoice
from a corresponding request. This copies all non-signature fields from the
request (including unknown signed-range TLVs via the decodedTLVs sidecar)
and mirrors invreq_amount into invoice_amount.

73/100 · AdequateMessage clarity
✓ Descriptive subject✓ Names a concrete action or component✓ Provides detailed explanatory context✓ Names security-relevant behavior explicitly
Why it was queued
signing boundary
AI analysis · Informational 12/100

This commit adds new code to support BOLT 12 invoices in the LND Lightning node. It introduces a data structure, encoding/decoding logic, and helper functions to filter fallback addresses and blinded payment paths. There is no bug fix or security patch here; it is a feature addition implementing a protocol specification.

Security candidateci: split PR severity workflow into classify and apply jobsby Olaoluwa Osuntokun · 05c62527 · Jul 8, 2026 · 3 filesMessage 85 · StrongInformational 15Details
Commit message · Olaoluwa Osuntokun

ci: split PR severity workflow into classify and apply jobs

In this commit, we separate the two concerns in the PR severity workflow:
working out the severity, and applying it. The classify job inspects the
PR and records its verdict (the severity level, whether to comment, and
the comment body) to a few files. A second apply job reads those files
and does the mechanical work of setting the label and posting the comment.

Pulling the classification apart from the application keeps each job doing
one thing and makes the flow easier to follow. The apply job takes the
severity the classifier picked and checks it against the known set before
touching a label, and posts the comment from a file via --body-file so the
body is handled as plain data. We also turn off checkout credential
persistence, since neither job needs a git credential on disk.

85/100 · StrongMessage clarity
✓ Specific, descriptive subject✓ Names a concrete action or component✓ Uses a recognizable type or scope✓ Provides detailed explanatory context
Why it was queued
credential or privilege state
AI analysis · Informational 15/100

This commit is a hardening and cleanup of a GitHub Actions workflow that automatically labels pull requests by severity. It does not change any LND node code, wallet logic, or network protocol. Instead, it splits the workflow into two jobs: a read-only 'classify' job that runs an AI model to decide the severity, and a separate 'apply' job that actually sets the label and posts the comment. The change reduces security risk by keeping write permissions out of the job that processes untrusted pull-request text, pins the external AI action to a fixed commit hash, disables unnecessary git credentials, and adds input sanitization for the model-generated comment. It is a defensive improvement, not a vulnerability fix.

Security candidatefunding: use channel state open channelby ziggie · 03daaad4 · Jul 7, 2026 · 2 filesMessage 68 · AdequateInformational 15Details
Commit message · ziggie

funding: use channel state open channel

Update the funding manager callback and helper signatures to depend on
the chanstate OpenChannel type instead of the channeldb alias.

The funding manager already receives channel persistence through the
chanstate Store interface, so this keeps its open-channel boundary
aligned with the backend-independent package.

68/100 · AdequateMessage clarity
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Why it was queued
signing boundary
AI analysis · Informational 15/100

This commit is a straightforward internal code cleanup in LND's channel-opening machinery. It swaps one internal type name (channeldb.OpenChannel) for another (chanstate.OpenChannel) across function signatures in the funding manager and its tests. There is no change to user-facing behavior, network protocol, cryptography, or data handling, and nothing in the commit suggests a security fix or vulnerability.

Security candidatechanstate: fix htlc copyby ziggie · b720fd5c · Jul 6, 2026 · 2 filesMessage 56 · ThinLow 46Details
Commit message · ziggie

chanstate: fix htlc copy

Copy all HTLC fields when cloning channel commitment state.

The old copy method only copied a subset of scalar fields and copied
into nil slices for Signature and ExtraData. Allocate those slices and
deep-copy custom record values so snapshots and channel copies retain
complete HTLC metadata.

56/100 · ThinMessage clarity
✓ Subject identifies a change✓ Provides detailed explanatory context✓ Names security-relevant behavior explicitly
Why it was queued
signing boundary
AI analysis · Low 46/100

This commit fixes a bug in how the Lightning Network Daemon (LND) copies payment channel data. When the program made a copy of an HTLC (a pending payment in a Lightning channel), it failed to copy several important fields and did not properly duplicate variable-length data like signatures, extra data, and custom records. This could cause copies or snapshots of channel state to be incomplete or accidentally share mutable data. The fix deep-copies all relevant fields and adds a test to verify the copy is fully independent.

Security candidatelnwallet+walletrpc: add SubmitPackage for v3 CPFP package relayby Elle Mouton · f55c0565 · Jun 30, 2026 · 17 filesMessage 73 · AdequateLow 30Details
Commit message · Elle Mouton

lnwallet+walletrpc: add SubmitPackage for v3 CPFP package relay

Add SubmitPackage to the lnwallet.WalletController interface and a new
WalletKit.SubmitPackage RPC, so a client of lnd can relay a package of
related transactions (parents first, child last) through lnd's own chain
connection. This lets a zero-fee v3/TRUC parent be accepted via its
fee-paying CPFP child without the caller needing a separate connection to
the chain backend.

BtcWallet.SubmitPackage forwards to the chain backend's submitpackage for
bitcoind/btcd, and broadcasts each transaction individually for neutrino
(no mempool; relies on the peer's 1p1c package relay). The WalletKit
handler maps the proto request/response to the btcjson result and is
gated by the onchain:write macaroon permission. Mock controllers and the
no-chain backend gain trivial implementations.

73/100 · AdequateMessage clarity
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Why it was queued
credential or privilege statesigning or wallet path
AI analysis · Low 30/100

This commit adds a new RPC called SubmitPackage to LND's WalletKit. It lets users submit a group of related Bitcoin transactions together so a zero-fee parent can be accepted because a later child transaction pays its fee. This is a feature addition, not a fix for a known vulnerability. The code is careful about limits and permissions, but it does expose a new on-chain write capability that could be misused if an attacker already has a valid macaroon.

Security candidatebolt12: validate InvoiceRequest per BOLT 12 reader/writer requirementsby bitromortac · 8b4587b0 · Jun 30, 2026 · 3 filesMessage 88 · StrongLow 49Details
Commit message · bitromortac

bolt12: validate InvoiceRequest per BOLT 12 reader/writer requirements

ValidateInvoiceRequestRead and ValidateInvoiceRequestWrite enforce the
structural BOLT 12 requirements an invoice request can be checked
against on its own. The reader validates incoming requests. The writer
catches out-of-range types in decoded-then-mutated requests before they
leave the local boundary. Type 240 carries the signature and sits
outside the allowed range by spec design. Both validators skip it
during the range scan.

Two reader MUSTs are deferred. Schnorr signature verification against
the merkle root keyed by invreq_payer_id lands with the Invoice
message, where the merkle and signing primitives are shared. Offer
cross-validation requires an Offer reference the structural validator
does not carry, and lands in the bolt12handler layer where both the
request and the stored Offer are in scope.

88/100 · StrongMessage clarity
✓ Specific, descriptive subject✓ Names a concrete action or component✓ Provides detailed explanatory context✓ Mentions testing or verification✓ Names security-relevant behavior explicitly
Why it was queued
signing boundarydefensive validation
AI analysis · Low 49/100

This commit adds validation checks for BOLT 12 invoice requests in the LND Lightning node. It ensures that invoice requests follow protocol rules when being created (written) and received (read), rejecting malformed or non-compliant requests before they are encoded or processed. The change is defensive: it prevents invalid invoice requests from leaving the node or being accepted from peers, which could otherwise lead to payment confusion, incorrect amounts, or protocol incompatibility. Signature verification and full offer cross-checking are intentionally left for future commits.

Security candidatebolt12: add InvoiceRequest message struct and TLV codecby bitromortac · 6bb9c7e8 · Jun 26, 2026 · 2 filesMessage 78 · AdequateInformational 12Details
Commit message · bitromortac

bolt12: add InvoiceRequest message struct and TLV codec

The InvoiceRequest is the BOLT 12 message that links a payer to an
offer: it mirrors the offer's fields so the issuer can stay stateless,
and adds the payer-specific fields and Schnorr signature that prove the
request.

It implements lnwire.PureTLVMessage so it round-trips through the shared
TLV codec.

78/100 · AdequateMessage clarity
✓ Specific, descriptive subject✓ Names a concrete action or component✓ Provides detailed explanatory context✓ Names security-relevant behavior explicitly
Why it was queued
signing boundary
AI analysis · Informational 12/100

This commit adds a new data structure and serialization code for BOLT 12 invoice requests in the LND Lightning node. It is purely an implementation of a protocol message format and includes a round-trip test. There is no indication in the commit that it fixes a security bug or introduces a vulnerability.

Security candidatemulti: upgrade to btcd v2 modulesby Oli · 8047149c · Jun 24, 2026 · 605 filesMessage 88 · StrongLow 32Details
Commit message · Oli

multi: upgrade to btcd v2 modules

Migrate all btcd dependencies to the new per-package v2 modules (wire/v2,
txscript/v2, chaincfg/v2, chainhash/v2, btcutil/v2, psbt/v2, btcec/v2)
introduced by btcd v0.26.0, and pin the tagged ecosystem versions:
btcwallet v0.17.0, neutrino v0.18.0 and lightning-onion v1.4.0.

The bulk of the import rewrite was produced by the scripted diff from
https://github.com/btcsuite/btcd/pull/2547 (followed by 'make rpc'). The
address symbols that moved out of btcutil into the new address package
are imported as btcaddr where a local "address" variable would otherwise
shadow them. The go.mod/go.sum updates and the remaining manual
compilation fixes are folded into this single commit so it builds on its
own (the migration was previously split into a reproducible scripted-diff
plus follow-ups, intended to be squashed on merge).

88/100 · StrongMessage clarity
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Why it was queued
signing boundaryaccess controlsigning or wallet pathboot or update pathparser or protocol path
AI analysis · Low 32/100

This is a large dependency upgrade for the LND Lightning node software. It moves LND from older btcd Bitcoin library packages to new 'v2' packages and updates related wallet and network libraries. The commit is almost entirely mechanical import-path changes and version bumps. It does not appear to fix a specific known security bug on its own, but it pulls in newer upstream versions that may contain security fixes. Because the change touches 605 files and many core Bitcoin-handling modules, any mistake in the migration could affect transaction parsing, address handling, or cryptographic operations, so it should be reviewed and tested carefully.

Security candidatediscovery: fix panic in DNS fallback SRV lookupby Erick Cestari · 2a3642c6 · Jun 23, 2026 · 2 filesMessage 85 · StrongLow 47Details
Commit message · Erick Cestari

discovery: fix panic in DNS fallback SRV lookup

The fallback SRV lookup type-asserted each DNS Answer record to *dns.SRV
unconditionally. If the response contains a non-SRV record (e.g. an A or
CNAME), the type assertion panics and crashes the daemon. Use the
comma-ok form to skip non-SRV records instead.

Also guard against an empty LookupHost result for the shim, which would
otherwise panic on an out-of-bounds index into addrs.

This is safe to discuss and fix in public. The bug is very unlikely to be
exploitable: triggering it requires either a DNS seeder to serve a
malformed response, or an on-path MITM injecting one (the fallback
response is unauthenticated). A malicious seeder already has far more
direct ways to disrupt a node, and a MITM attack is hard to mount, so the
panic does not meaningfully widen the attack surface.

85/100 · StrongMessage clarity
✓ Descriptive subject✓ Names a concrete action or component✓ Provides detailed explanatory context✓ Explains rationale or failure mode✓ Names security-relevant behavior explicitly
Why it was queued
explicit security language
AI analysis · Low 47/100

This commit fixes a bug in LND's DNS seed bootstrap code that could crash the node. The code assumed every record in a DNS response was an SRV record, so a non-SRV record (like a normal A or CNAME record) would cause a panic. The fix safely skips non-SRV records and also handles cases where the DNS lookup returns no addresses at all. The commit message says the bug is hard to exploit because it requires a malicious DNS server or a network attacker, and such attackers already have easier ways to disrupt a node.

Security candidatekvdb: remove stale xz replaceby ziggie · 80f98a5e · Jun 9, 2026 · 1 fileMessage 73 · AdequateInformational 18Details
Commit message · ziggie

kvdb: remove stale xz replace

Remove the nested kvdb module's github.com/ulikunitz/xz replace
directive.

The current kvdb module graph does not select github.com/ulikunitz/xz,
so the historical vulnerability workaround is no longer needed in this
nested go.mod.

73/100 · AdequateMessage clarity
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Why it was queued
explicit security language
AI analysis · Informational 18/100

This commit removes a temporary security workaround in a Go module file. The workaround forced the use of a newer, fixed version of a compression library (xz) to avoid a known historical vulnerability. The commit message says the library is no longer used by this part of the project, so the workaround is no longer needed. By itself, removing the workaround does not introduce a vulnerability, but it means the project now relies on the normal dependency resolution to pick a safe version elsewhere.

Security candidatemod: remove stale xz replaceby ziggie · eeaa717e · Jun 9, 2026 · 1 fileMessage 88 · StrongInformational 12Details
Commit message · ziggie

mod: remove stale xz replace

The github.com/ulikunitz/xz replacement was added for CVE-2021-29482
when an older embedded-postgres dependency chain pulled in the affected
module indirectly.

That module is no longer part of the selected dependency graph: go mod
why reports that the main module does not need it, and go list -m
reports it is not a known dependency. Keeping the replacement no longer
affects builds.

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AI analysis · Informational 12/100

This commit removes an old workaround in LND's dependency file (go.mod) that pinned a safe version of the 'xz' compression library. The workaround was originally added because another dependency once pulled in a vulnerable version of xz. The commit message says that dependency is no longer in LND's build graph, so the pin no longer does anything. There is no code change that introduces a vulnerability; it is cleanup of a stale configuration line.

Security candidatelint: remove redundant loop var copies in test filesby Erick Cestari · aca27e27 · Jun 3, 2026 · 137 filesMessage 83 · StrongInformational 15Details
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lint: remove redundant loop var copies in test files

Since Go 1.22 loop variables are scoped per-iteration, so the
`x := x` / `a, b := a, b` copies inside range/for loops are no longer
needed. This removes the existing redundant copies in test files.

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cryptography-sensitive pathsigning or wallet pathboot or update pathauthentication path
AI analysis · Informational 15/100

This commit is a cleanup-only change that removes unnecessary loop-variable copies in Go test files. Since Go 1.22, loop variables are already scoped per-iteration, so the old `x := x` workarounds are redundant. The change affects only test code, not the running LND node software, and does not alter any behavior or fix a security bug.

Security candidatemod: bump btcwallet to v0.16.18by yyforyongyu · 5b45ac81 · May 28, 2026 · 2 filesMessage 68 · AdequateInformational 15Details
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mod: bump btcwallet to v0.16.18

Replace the pseudo-version pin on commit 70a94ea39e9c with the freshly
tagged v0.16.18, which points at the same commit. The change is purely
a relabel -- no transitive impact -- but it lets downstream consumers
(litd, tapd, etc.) drop their replace directives, since v0.16.18 now
sorts above the previously-tagged v0.16.17 under Go's MVS.

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access control
AI analysis · Informational 15/100

This commit only changes a dependency version label in LND's package manifest. The underlying code (commit 70a94ea39e9c) stays exactly the same; the dependency is simply tagged as v0.16.18 instead of being referenced by a pseudo-version. There is no functional or security change visible in this commit.

Security candidatemod: bump kvdb to v1.5.1by yyforyongyu · 12686ac3 · May 28, 2026 · 2 filesMessage 66 · AdequateLow 32Details
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mod: bump kvdb to v1.5.1

Move from kvdb/v1.5.0 to the freshly tagged kvdb/v1.5.1, which points
at current master HEAD. The new tag includes the kvdb submodule's grpc
floor bump to v1.79.3 (173fd5147) and the otel SDK bump past the
GO-2026-4394 vulnerability (9978f4d33).

The root lnd module already requires the newer grpc and otel versions,
so this bump is effectively a relabel with no transitive impact on the
root build. But it keeps downstream consumers that import lnd/kvdb
directly from picking up v1.5.0 and pulling in the vulnerable otel SDK
through kvdb's submodule go.mod.

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AI analysis · Low 32/100

This commit updates a dependency version in LND's build files. It bumps the internal 'kvdb' submodule from version 1.5.0 to 1.5.1 so that downstream projects importing kvdb directly do not pull in an older, vulnerable telemetry library (OpenTelemetry SDK). The commit message says the main LND module already uses the newer versions, so this change is mostly a relabel for consumers of the kvdb submodule and has no direct code change in LND itself.

Security candidatemulti: drop tor v2 onion production, keep wire codec faithfulby Erick Cestari · 2ae1db83 · May 22, 2026 · 31 filesMessage 88 · StrongLow 34Details
Commit message · Erick Cestari

multi: drop tor v2 onion production, keep wire codec faithful

Tor stopped serving v2 onion services in October 2021; lnd should not
produce v2 addresses anymore, but it must still verify signatures on
and re-broadcast peer NodeAnnouncement messages that carry v2 entries.

Stop accepting v2 as configuration input (lncfg), strip the legacy
`--tor.v2` flag from the sample config, and remove the
`tor.OnionHostToFakeIP` helper. Operator entry points (`--externalip`,
`--listen`, `lncli connect`, `lncli wtclient towers add`) fail fast on
a v2 `.onion` string, so upgrading nodes must remove any v2 entry from
`lnd.conf` before lnd will start.

Filter persisted v2 state before use without rewriting on-disk records:
the self-announcement builder strips any v2 entry inherited from the
stored self-node; the watchtower client drops v2 entries from each
persisted tower's address list (skipping the tower entirely if no
non-v2 address remains); the autopilot connector, graph bootstrapper,
and static-channel backup restore paths skip v2 entries before
attempting outbound dials. Restrict the Tor controller's ADD_ONION
path to v3 keys, including the encrypted on-disk legacy-key fallback.

For inbound announcements, keep the wire codec wire-faithful:
`lnwire.WriteOnionAddr`, `graph/db.encodeOnionAddr`, and the matching
decoders round-trip v2 bytes so `DataToSign` reproduces the bytes the
remote peer signed, signature validation succeeds, and the announcement
is persisted to the graph DB and re-broadcast across restarts byte-for-
byte. RPC surfaces continue to expose the full address set so external
tools can independently reproduce and verify the signed bytes.

Add a netann regression test that signs a [v3, v2, ipv4] announcement,
round-trips it through Encode/Decode, verifies the signature, and
confirms the resulting models.Node preserves the v2 entry. Add a
graph bootstrapper test asserting v2 entries are skipped while v3 and
plain TCP entries on the same node still surface as bootstrap
candidates.

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signing boundaryfuzzing or regression evidence
AI analysis · Low 34/100

This commit removes support for obsolete Tor v2 onion addresses from the Lightning Network Daemon (lnd). Tor v2 services were shut down by the Tor network in October 2021, so lnd will no longer create, accept, or dial v2 onion addresses. However, it still keeps the ability to store and re-broadcast v2 addresses that appear in messages from other nodes, because doing otherwise would break signature verification on those older announcements. The change is a cleanup and hardening patch rather than a fix for an active security vulnerability.

Security candidatemulti: update neutrino dep to include chainimport and header state fixby Olaoluwa Osuntokun · 88fff36e · May 21, 2026 · 3 filesMessage 78 · AdequateInformational 12Details
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multi: update neutrino dep to include chainimport and header state fix

Update the neutrino dependency to a version that includes the
chainimport package for fast initial header sync, and the
ResetHeaderState fix that allows P2P sync to continue after import.

The updated neutrino dependency changes the ChainService.Start method
signature to accept a context.Context parameter. Update all call sites
to pass context.TODO() to maintain existing behavior.

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Why it was queued
signing boundary
AI analysis · Informational 12/100

This commit simply updates a software library dependency (neutrino) used by the Lightning Network Daemon (LND). The new version is said to add a faster way to import blockchain headers and fix a bug that could stop peer-to-peer header syncing after an import. The actual code change shown is only a version bump in dependency files plus a tiny whitespace cleanup in a linter config. There is no direct evidence in the commit of a security vulnerability or attack.

Security candidatelnwallet/rpcwallet: accept zero-value WitnessUtxo entries in remote-sign prepby Olaoluwa Osuntokun · 9f31668b · May 19, 2026 · 1 fileMessage 85 · StrongLow 43Details
Commit message · Olaoluwa Osuntokun

lnwallet/rpcwallet: accept zero-value WitnessUtxo entries in remote-sign prep

Before forwarding a SignOutputRaw request to the remote signer instance,
remoteSign rebuilds a PSBT from the unsigned transaction and annotates
every input with a WitnessUtxo (so the downstream walletkit.SignPsbt
call accepts it — taproot sighash computation requires the prev output
of every input, not just the one being signed).

For non-signed inputs the prep stage first asks the watch-only wallet
about the outpoint via FetchOutpointInfo, then — when the wallet does
not own or track the outpoint — falls back to the sign descriptor's
PrevOutputFetcher. The fallback previously required `utxo.Value != 0`,
which silently dropped legitimate zero-value entries on the floor and
left the corresponding PSBT input bare.

The walletkit.SignPsbt entry point on the remote signer then rejected
the PSBT with "input (index=N) doesn't specify any UTXO info" because
input N had neither a WitnessUtxo nor a NonWitnessUtxo annotation.

BIP-322 (signing virtual transactions for message attestation) is the
canonical hitter: its to_spend output is mandated by the BIP to be
exactly value=0 with the message commitment as pk_script, and that
output is referenced as input 0 of every BIP-322 to_sign transaction.
Any caller that drives a BIP-322 sign through a remote-signer LND
deployment was failing for this reason.

The validation we actually want is that the fetched prev output is
representable as a usable WitnessUtxo: non-nil and with a non-empty
pk_script. Drop the Value check; the zero-value case is well-formed
and the resulting PSBT input will serialize cleanly. The fetched-but-
empty-pk_script case continues to be rejected (a WitnessUtxo with
empty PkScript is malformed at PSBT serialization), and the warning
log when no fallback resolves the outpoint is preserved verbatim.

Lift the WitnessUtxo-population loop out of remoteSign into a
package-level helper so the resolution policy is unit-testable without
spinning up a real wallet + remote signer pair. The helper takes a
fetchOutpointInfoFn callback that mirrors
lnwallet.WalletController.FetchOutpointInfo. No behavior change for
the wallet-owns-it path or the no-fallback path.

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signing boundaryupdate trustsigning or wallet path
AI analysis · Low 43/100

This commit fixes a bug in LND's remote-signing setup where zero-value previous transaction outputs were wrongly ignored when preparing a PSBT for a remote signer. The most concrete affected use case is BIP-322 message attestation, where the protocol requires a zero-value output. Because of the bug, the remote signer would refuse to sign, causing a functional failure rather than a loss of funds. The patch removes the mistaken zero-value check and adds a unit-testable helper function.

Security candidatelnwallet/rpcwallet: add unit tests for WitnessUtxo population helperby Olaoluwa Osuntokun · 6bb2c6f5 · May 19, 2026 · 1 fileMessage 83 · StrongInformational 15Details
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lnwallet/rpcwallet: add unit tests for WitnessUtxo population helper

Cover the four resolution branches plus the BIP-322 regression case:

- wallet-owns-it: FetchOutpointInfo returns a Utxo, helper writes
the matching WitnessUtxo into the PSBT input.
- external-fallback: wallet returns ErrNotMine, helper writes the
WitnessUtxo from the sign descriptor's PrevOutputFetcher.
- zero-value-fallback: same as above with the fetched entry's Value
set to zero. This is the BIP-322 to_spend shape (input 0 of every
BIP-322 to_sign references a virtual prev whose Value is mandated
to be zero); the helper must populate the WitnessUtxo rather than
silently skip it.
- no-fallback: wallet returns ErrNotMine and no PrevOutputFetcher
is provided; the helper leaves the input bare and the warning log
fires (asserted only by absence of a populated WitnessUtxo).
- empty-pk_script-fallback: the fetcher returns a non-nil entry
with an empty PkScript; the helper rejects it as unusable (the
PSBT WitnessUtxo serializer requires a non-empty script) and
leaves the input bare.

The signed input (signDesc.InputIndex) is intentionally left untouched
by the helper — that input is the one the caller's main path will
populate later — and the tests cross-check that invariant on the
wallet-owns-it case.

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signing boundarysigning or wallet path
AI analysis · Informational 15/100

This commit only adds new unit tests for an existing helper function in LND's RPC wallet code. It does not change any production logic, so it cannot introduce a security vulnerability or directly fix one in the code being committed. The tests document and verify how the helper populates PSBT witness UTXO data, including a regression test for BIP-322 zero-value outputs.

Security candidatelnrpc: remove deprecated Send* RPC server implementationsby Erick Cestari · 3ff87913 · May 18, 2026 · 1 fileMessage 73 · AdequateInformational 15Details
Commit message · Erick Cestari

lnrpc: remove deprecated Send* RPC server implementations

Remove handler implementations and macaroon permission entries for the
now-deleted lnrpc RPCs: SendPayment, SendPaymentSync, SendToRoute, and
SendToRouteSync.

Also remove the dead payment infrastructure that was exclusively used by
these handlers: paymentStream, rpcPaymentRequest, rpcPaymentIntent,
extractPaymentIntent, dispatchPaymentIntent, sendPayment, and
sendPaymentSync.

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credential or privilege state
AI analysis · Informational 15/100

This commit removes old, unused code paths for sending Lightning payments through the main RPC server. These RPCs (SendPayment, SendPaymentSync, SendToRoute, SendToRouteSync) were already deleted from the service definition in a prior change, so this patch only cleans up the leftover server-side implementations and their macaroon permissions. There is no security vulnerability here; it is routine code deletion of dead functionality.

Security candidaterouterrpc: remove deprecated SendPayment, SendToRoute, TrackPayment implsby Erick Cestari · c7dd0a99 · May 18, 2026 · 2 filesMessage 73 · AdequateLow 37Details
Commit message · Erick Cestari

routerrpc: remove deprecated SendPayment, SendToRoute, TrackPayment impls

Remove the SendPayment, SendToRoute, and TrackPayment shim methods from
router_server_deprecated.go that delegated to their V2 counterparts.
Remove their macaroon permission entries from router_server.go and the
now-unused legacyTrackPaymentServer wrapper.

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credential or privilege state
AI analysis · Low 37/100

This commit removes three old, deprecated payment RPC methods (SendPayment, SendToRoute, and TrackPayment) from the LND Lightning node's router service. These methods were already replaced by newer V2 versions and were only thin wrappers around them. Removing them reduces the amount of code that could contain bugs and removes their access permissions, but it may also break older client software that still calls these methods.

Security candidatelntest: pin pre-v30 mempool policy defaults in itest bitcoindby ziggie · 6914ea0b · Apr 23, 2026 · 1 fileMessage 83 · StrongInformational 14Details
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lntest: pin pre-v30 mempool policy defaults in itest bitcoind

Bitcoind v30 lowered the default minrelaytxfee and incrementalrelayfee
from 1000 sat/kvB (1 sat/vB) to 100 sat/kvB. The itest suite was
written against the old defaults and the lower values cascade into:

- integer sat/vByte assertions losing precision below 1 sat/vB, and
- RBF bump thresholds that alter sweeper/bumpfee replacement timing.

Pin the old defaults in the itest bitcoind backend so the existing
tests keep passing without per-test adaptation. Running against the
new defaults is still worth doing, but that is a separate exercise
that should not be bundled with the v30 version bump.

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access control
AI analysis · Informational 14/100

This change only adjusts the settings used for internal testing of LND with a Bitcoin Core backend. It pins older Bitcoin Core fee defaults so that existing automated tests continue to produce the same results after Bitcoin Core v30 changed its defaults. It does not change production LND code, user-facing behavior, or network consensus rules, and it does not fix a security vulnerability.

Security candidatepeer: gate onion message ingress on having an open channelby Olaoluwa Osuntokun · c0827e8e · Apr 15, 2026 · 9 filesMessage 95 · StrongHigh 76Details
Commit message · Olaoluwa Osuntokun

peer: gate onion message ingress on having an open channel

Onion message forwarding is an unpaid side channel. Without any peer
qualification the byte-bucket limiters added in the previous commits are
our only defense against a Sybil attacker: an attacker that can cheaply
spin up N identities and burn a full per-peer byte budget on each one
saturates the global bucket and converts the aggregate cap into a
service-denial primitive against legitimate channel peers. This was
raised on PR review — the per-peer cap is good, but the global cap on
its own is a Sybil multiplier if peer identity is free. The proper fix
is to make new identities cost real capital, which is what requiring a
funded channel does.

This commit adds a channel-presence gate as the first check in
allowOnionMessage, ahead of both the per-peer and the global rate
limiters. Messages from peers that do not have at least one fully
open channel with us are dropped with a new dropReasonNoChannel
sentinel and never allocate any rate limiter state — the gate runs
before either limiter is consulted, so no-channel peers cannot burn
tokens on any bucket. Pending channels are deliberately excluded from
the check: they are represented as nil values in the activeChannels
map, are cheap to open and prone to getting stuck, and so do not
provide the capital-cost guarantee the Sybil defense depends on.
Existing Brontide cleanup paths (StopOnionActorIfExists,
OnionPeerLimiter.Forget) already handle teardown on peer disconnect;
nothing new is needed there because the gate keeps no-channel peers
from ever allocating per-peer state in the first place.

For the hot path we cannot afford to iterate the activeChannels
registry on every incoming onion message, so Brontide now carries a
numActiveChans atomic.Int32 that shadows the count of non-pending
entries in activeChannels. hasActiveChannels is a single atomic Load
and is therefore O(1). The counter is maintained in lockstep with
activeChannels at every mutation site: loadActiveChannels increments
it as it populates the registry during Start(); addActiveChannel uses
a new lnutils.SyncMap.Swap method (a thin typed wrapper around
sync.Map.Swap) to atomically replace any prior entry so that both
brand-new channels and pending-to-active promotions bump the counter
by exactly one; WipeChannel and handleRemovePendingChannel both use
LoadAndDelete so they can inspect the prior value and only decrement
when the removed entry was non-nil. Under race, this keeps the
counter and the map consistent even when RPC WipeChannel races with
the channelManager goroutine.

The accompanying unit tests cover: the no-channel drop path at the
allowOnionMessage level, asserting that neither the global stub
counter nor the per-peer limiter's dropped counter move when the
gate fires; the subsequent channel-gained path on the same peer,
asserting the same message is accepted once hasChannel flips; and a
focused Brontide-level test that walks the counter through initial
emptiness, a pending-only state (counter must stay at zero), a
pending-to-active promotion via direct Store + Add, the pending
delete path through handleRemovePendingChannel (must not underflow),
and the active delete path through LoadAndDelete + Add(-1) that
WipeChannel uses internally. Running with -race confirms the
Swap/LoadAndDelete patterns keep the counter and the map in sync
under concurrent access.

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explicit security languagesecure hardware boundary
AI analysis · High 76/100

This change closes a denial-of-service weakness in LND's onion-message forwarding. Previously, an attacker could create unlimited free peer identities and burn through the global byte-budget reserved for onion messages, starving real peers. The patch now requires a peer to share at least one funded, fully open Lightning channel before any onion message is accepted, so each attacker identity must lock up real bitcoin. It also adds a fast O(1) atomic counter so this check does not slow down every incoming message.

Security candidatelnwallet: regenerate taproot test vectors with secret noncesby Olaoluwa Osuntokun · 50981dfc · Apr 13, 2026 · 1 fileMessage 83 · StrongInformational 12Details
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lnwallet: regenerate taproot test vectors with secret nonces

Regenerate the test vectors JSON to include local_sec_nonce and
remote_sec_nonce fields alongside the existing public nonces. The local
nonce fields now correctly correspond to local's verification nonce for
their own commitment transaction, matching the commitment tx stored in
the test vector.

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defensive validationfuzzing or regression evidencenonce handlingsigning or wallet path
AI analysis · Informational 12/100

This commit only updates test data in a JSON file used for automated tests of Lightning's new taproot channel features. It adds secret nonce values and corrects public nonce values so the test vectors match the expected commitment transactions. There is no change to production wallet or network code, so it does not introduce a security vulnerability or fix one in running software.