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This commit changes how the Lightning networking code handles oversized encrypted messages. Previously, certain conditions would cause the program to crash with a panic. Now the code returns errors instead, which is a defensive improvement…
panic-to-error conversion for oversized message encryption/decryptiondenial-of-service hardening against oversized peer messagesdebug_assert retained to preserve test coverage of invariant violations
This commit simply updates the 'repository' web links in 15 package metadata files from GitHub to a self-hosted Forgejo instance. It does not change any program code, build logic, dependencies, or security behavior. There is no security is…
This commit fixes a bug in the Lightning Dev Kit where, after a disconnection, a node could fail to retransmit a 'splice_locked' message to a peer that was still waiting for transaction signatures. Without this retransmission, the two peer…
Protocol state desynchronization between channel peers after reconnectionMissing retransmission of splice_locked for 0-conf splice channelsPotential channel unusability or stuck splice negotiation
This commit fixes a small accounting bug in how the Lightning wallet estimates the size (and therefore transaction fee) of a special Bitcoin transaction that sweeps funds back to the user after a channel closes. The old code always assumed…
debug assertion failure possible in development/testing buildstransaction weight/fee estimate overestimation up to 3 WUconstant replaced with per-descriptor length computation
This commit changes the project's internal code-review workflow. It stops automatically assigning a human reviewer when a pull request is opened; instead, contributors must manually click a button to request a reviewer after first addressi…
This commit fixes a bug in LDK's Lightning channel reconnection logic after a splice (a way to resize a channel's on-chain funds). If one peer had already received the splice signatures but the other had not, and then they disconnected and…
Protocol-state inconsistency on reconnection after splice signature exchangePotential channel stall/force-close due to quiescence not being exited before commitment updateFuzzer-discovered edge case in Lightning splicing retransmission
This commit adds a new option for Lightning invoice creators to explicitly tell payers not to use multi-path payments (MPP) when paying an invoice. It does not change any enforcement rules; it only changes what feature bits are advertised …
New API surface for feature advertisement controlExplicit documentation that the method does not enforce single-HTLC receipt, shifting enforcement responsibility to callersNo removal or weakening of existing validation logic
This commit adjusts the project's continuous integration (CI) test script to pin an older version of a build-time helper crate called `jobserver` when using older Rust compilers. It is a build compatibility fix, not a security patch, and d…
This commit only adds new test code. It exercises how a newer version of LDK exchanges saved channel data with the older LDK 0.2 release when a channel has a pending splice. There is no change to production logic, no bug fix, and no securi…
This commit removes the 'Option' wrapper from several HTLC amount fields, making them required instead of optional. It is a cleanup/refactoring change that simplifies the code by assuming the amount is always known. The commit message fram…
Removal of Option wrapper for financial amount fieldsSerialization format change from optional to required TLV fieldsLoss of backward compatibility with older serialized monitor/channel state
This commit is a code cleanup inside the project's test suite. It replaces a helper function with several hard-to-read positional arguments (like bare `false` and `None`) with a 'builder' pattern that names each option. This makes the test…
This commit is a feature addition, not a vulnerability fix. It extends rust-lightning's BOLT 12 payment support so that when a wallet pays a BOLT 12 invoice, the paid invoice is saved through retries and restarts and is later exposed in th…
New BOLT 12 payer proof feature: persists paid invoice across retries/restarts and exposes it in Event::PaymentSentPayer signing key re-derived from invoice payer metadata rather than storing extra key materialAdds end-to-end test for proof creation, verification, and bech32 round-trip
This commit is a code cleanup (refactor) in the Lightning Dev Kit library. It moves existing payer key-derivation logic into shared helper functions so that future 'payer proof' features can reuse the same code. The change does not appear …
Refactor only: moves existing key derivation/verification logic into helpers without changing algorithmsAdds new public API `Bolt12Invoice::derive_payer_signing_keys` for payer proof key recoveryNo mention of vulnerability, bug, CVE, security fix, or exploit in commit title/message
This commit changes a CI workflow for the rust-lightning project. It stops trying to push new fuzz test inputs directly to a corpus repository from automated test runs, and instead uploads them as a temporary artifact that a separate sched…
This commit adds partial support in the Lightning Dev Kit node software for receiving and temporarily holding multi-part trampoline payments, then deliberately rejects them once all parts arrive because full outbound forwarding is not yet …
New trampoline forward handling path accumulates MPP parts before rejectingDebug assertion guards first-HTLC failure in MPP mergeTODO comment flags possible MPP inconsistency in next_node_id across trampoline parts
This commit removes a redundant 32-byte shared secret field from an internal data structure used when forwarding trampoline payments in the Lightning Dev Kit. The developers realized the secret was already stored inside each previous hop's…
Removes redundant secret field from in-memory/persisted stateChanges TLV serialization layout for HTLCSource::TrampolineForwardBreaking persistence change acknowledged by commit author
This commit changes the project's automated reviewer-assignment workflow to stop using a long-lived secret token and instead request a short-lived authentication token from the Forgejo CI service. This is a security-hardening improvement: …
Removal of long-lived repository secret from CI workflowAdoption of OIDC-based short-lived token for API authorizationWorkflow runs in pull_request_target context with no code checkout
This commit only adds new fuzz-testing commands to an existing test harness. It lets the fuzzer temporarily block and then re-enable the local node's own signing operations during simulated channel failures. There is no change to productio…
This commit hardens the project's automated build and test scripts by replacing loose version tags like 'actions/checkout@v4' with exact commit hashes served from a specific domain. This prevents a compromised or renamed third-party action…
CI/CD supply-chain hardeningAction reference pinning to immutable commit hashUse of explicit action mirror URL
This commit fixes a logic bug in the Lightning Dev Kit's channel splicing code. Previously, the code wrongly assumed that no unrelated monitor update could be pending when a splice `tx_signatures` message arrived while the channel was quie…
Assertion relaxation in state-machine handling of splice `tx_signatures`Race condition between unrelated HTLC preimage monitor update and splice signature exchangePotential panic or protocol stall due to overly strict debug assertion
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Security candidateDrop local chacha20poly1305 implementationby Abeeujah · 964a84fc · May 5, 2026 · 4 filesMessage 50 · ThinTriage 15Details
Commit message · Abeeujah
Drop local chacha20poly1305 implementation
Complete the migration process from the local chacha20poly1305 to the rust-bitcoin chacha20-poly1305 crate.
50/100 · ThinMessage clarity
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Why it was queued
cryptography-sensitive path
Security candidateReplace local ChaCha20-Poly1305 with external crateby Abeeujah · a2cc67e7 · May 5, 2026 · 13 filesMessage 83 · StrongLow 36Details
Commit message · Abeeujah
Replace local ChaCha20-Poly1305 with external crate
Migrates ChaCha20-Poly1305 encryption from the local crypto module to rust-bitcoin's `chacha20-poly1305` crate.
Integrated the crate across all modules (Router, PeerStorage, Onion Utils, etc.).
Add the chacha20_poly1305_fuzz flag to fuzz config to after implementing the fuzz logic upstream.
83/100 · StrongMessage clarity
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fuzzing or regression evidencecryptography-sensitive pathsigning or wallet path
AI analysis · Low 36/100
This commit swaps out a home-grown ChaCha20-Poly1305 implementation for a widely reviewed external crate from the rust-bitcoin project. It is a routine refactoring/cryptographic-hardening change, not an obvious security fix. The diff shows careful translation of the old code to the new API, including fuzzing support and nonce handling. There is no direct evidence of a vulnerability being patched, but any crypto migration carries risk of subtle behavioral differences.
Security candidateValidate Esplora merkle proof against the block header's merkle rootby Elias Rohrer · b64efcda · May 5, 2026 · 1 fileMessage 78 · AdequateCritical 88Details
Commit message · Elias Rohrer
Validate Esplora merkle proof against the block header's merkle root
`EsploraSyncClient::get_confirmed_tx` parsed the SPV proof returned by the Esplora server but threw away the security check: the merkle root computed by `PartialMerkleTree::extract_matches` was discarded (`let _ = …`), and only the leaf-equality check (`matches[0] == txid`) remained. Anyone can construct a single-leaf partial tree advertising an arbitrary txid via `PartialMerkleTree::from_txids(&[txid], &[true])`, so this gate was vacuous.
A malicious or compromised Esplora server could therefore convince `EsploraSyncClient` that any transaction was confirmed in any block by returning `MerkleBlock { header: real_header, txn: forged_partial_tree }`, causing LDK to feed a synthesized `ConfirmedTx` into `Confirm` implementations such as `ChannelManager` / `ChainMonitor`. From there, the channel-funding / closing / HTLC flows would treat the transaction as confirmed at an attacker-chosen height, with consequences ranging from premature state transitions to force-close races.
Capture the merkle root returned by `extract_matches` and require it to equal `block_header.merkle_root`, matching the validation the Electrum sibling already performs via `validate_merkle_proof`.
Co-Authored-By: HAL 9000
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explicit security languagedefensive validationsigning or wallet path
AI analysis · Critical 88/100
This commit fixes a security bug in LDK's Esplora client. The client was supposed to verify that a transaction was really included in a Bitcoin block by checking a cryptographic proof (a merkle proof) from the Esplora server. But it only checked that the proof contained the right transaction ID, not that the proof actually connected to the real block header. Because a single-leaf proof can be forged for any transaction ID, a malicious or compromised Esplora server could trick LDK into believing any transaction was confirmed in any block. That could trigger wrong channel state changes, premature force-closes, or other fund-risking behavior. The fix makes the client compare the computed merkle root from the proof against the block header's merkle root, which is the same check the Electrum client already did.
Security candidateFree pending_query_count slot when DNS proof build failsby Elias Rohrer · fb4103d7 · May 5, 2026 · 1 fileMessage 95 · StrongHigh 76Details
Commit message · Elias Rohrer
Free pending_query_count slot when DNS proof build fails
`OMDomainResolver` rate-limits in-flight DNSSEC proof builds via a `pending_query_count` counter capped at `MAX_PENDING_RESPONSES` (1024). The counter was only released when the proof build succeeded, so any failure mode -- NXDOMAIN, insecure zones, unreachable resolvers, I/O timeouts, malformed names -- permanently consumed a slot.
Because the queried name is attacker-controlled (it travels in over a `DNSSECQuery` onion message from any LN peer, given DNS resolution is an opt-in network-advertised feature), an adversary could exhaust the counter with ~1025 failing queries and persistently DoS the resolver for any subsequent legitimate BIP-353 lookups, until the process is restarted.
Always release the slot once the proof build completes, regardless of outcome, and add a regression test which points the resolver at a TCP-refusing local port and asserts the counter returns to zero.
Co-Authored-By: HAL 9000
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explicit security languagefuzzing or regression evidence
AI analysis · High 76/100
This commit fixes a denial-of-service bug in rust-lightning's optional DNS resolver feature. A counter that limits how many DNS lookups can run at once was only being reset when a lookup succeeded; any failed lookup (bad name, unreachable server, timeout, etc.) permanently consumed one slot. Because any Lightning peer can ask for a DNS lookup, an attacker could send about 1,025 failing requests and permanently block the resolver until the node is restarted. The fix moves the counter reset so it always runs when the lookup finishes, success or failure, and adds a test that triggers a failure and checks the counter returns to zero.
Ignore stale announcement_signatures instead of force-closing
A peer may transmit `announcement_signatures` signed over a stale `short_channel_id` — most plausibly a retransmission or a peer implementation whose view hasn't caught up to our post-splice promotion. Verifying such sigs against the current `UnsignedChannelAnnouncement` (built from `self.funding`) always fails the hash check, which previously produced a force-close.
BOLT #7 does not require closing in this situation; the mismatch is expected across splice handoffs. Short-circuit with `ChannelError::Ignore` when `msg.short_channel_id` doesn't match the current funding's scid, leaving the genuine invalid-signature paths in place for sigs that actually target our current scid.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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signing boundary
AI analysis · Moderate 62/100
This change fixes a bug where a Lightning node would unnecessarily force-close a payment channel if its peer sent an outdated 'announcement_signatures' message referencing the old channel identifier after a splice (a channel funding update). The node now simply ignores these stale messages, keeping the channel open. The bug was not a direct theft of funds, but it could cause unwanted channel closures and disruption.
Skip pre-splice announcement_signatures on reestablish
When a splice transaction confirms on both sides while peers are disconnected, each peer's `channel_reestablish` carries `my_current_funding_locked` with the splice txid. In the reestablish handler, `get_announcement_sigs` was called before the inferred `splice_locked` was processed and the splice was promoted, so `self.funding` still pointed to the pre-splice scope. If `announcement_sigs_state` was `NotSent`, the generated `announcement_signatures` carried the pre-splice `short_channel_id` and bitcoin key — which the peer (having already promoted via its own inferred `splice_locked`) would verify against the post-splice `UnsignedChannelAnnouncement`, failing the signature check and force-closing.
Skip the pre-promotion call when `my_current_funding_locked` matches the splice we've already confirmed — i.e. `pending_splice.sent_funding_txid` is set and equals the peer's locked txid. `maybe_promote_splice_funding` emits correct post-splice signatures after the inferred `splice_locked` is processed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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signing boundary
AI analysis · Moderate 57/100
This commit fixes a bug in the Lightning Dev Kit where reconnecting after a channel 'splice' (a funding update) could cause one peer to send outdated channel announcement signatures. The peer receiving those stale signatures would reject them and force-close the channel. The fix skips generating announcement signatures until the splice has been promoted to the new funding, so both sides agree on the current channel state.
Security candidateRename `BestBlock` to `BlockLocator`by Matt Corallo · dcba68d2 · Apr 24, 2026 · 22 filesMessage 58 · ThinTriage 12Details
Commit message · Matt Corallo
Rename `BestBlock` to `BlockLocator`
`BestBlock` is now really a pointer to a block rather than just a block itself, so its weird to still call it `BestBlock`. Here we rename it to `BlockLocator`.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Several code paths exit quiescence by calling `clear_quiescent()` directly without also clearing the disconnect timer via `mark_response_received()`. This causes the timer to fire after the splice completes or is aborted, spuriously disconnecting the peer.
Replace `clear_quiescent()` with `exit_quiescence()` in `on_tx_signatures_exchange`, `reset_pending_splice_state`, and `peer_connected_get_handshake`, which clears both the quiescent state and the disconnect timer.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
68/100 · AdequateMessage clarity
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signing boundary
AI analysis · Low 44/100
This commit fixes a bug in the Lightning Dev Kit where a timer meant to disconnect unresponsive peers could fire by mistake after a splice operation completed, was aborted, or after reconnecting. The fix makes sure the timer is cleared whenever the protocol leaves its 'quiet' (quiescent) state, preventing unnecessary peer disconnections.
Move shared fuzz logic into the root fuzz crate and generate fake-hashes and real-hashes runner crates.
Keep `chanmon_consistency_target` on the real-hashes side, remove the fuzz-local Cargo config, and update scripts, CI, coverage, and docs to use explicit flags for each runner.
Generate the hash-mode compile checks in the wrapper bins without a synthetic Cargo feature, while keeping the wrapper template close to its original shape.
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fuzzing or regression evidenceseed or entropy pathsigning or wallet pathboot or update pathauthentication pathparser or protocol path
AI analysis · Informational 15/100
This commit is a build-system and test-infrastructure refactor for the project's fuzzing (automated randomized testing) harness. It splits fuzz test runners into two groups based on whether they use fake or real cryptographic hashes, moves shared code into a common crate, and updates CI scripts, coverage tooling, and documentation accordingly. There is no change to the actual Lightning protocol library or to how production nodes behave, and no security vulnerability is introduced or fixed.
The build-sync job started resolving hyper-rustls v0.27.8 for the esplora-async-https configuration. That release requires rustc 1.85, but the sync CI job still runs on Rust 1.75.0.
Pin hyper-rustls to 0.27.7 when building with rustc older than 1.85, alongside the existing MSRV dependency pins in ci-tests-common.sh.
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90/100 · StrongMessage clarity
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Why it was queued
access control
AI analysis · Informational 15/100
This is a routine CI maintenance commit. It pins an older version of a dependency (hyper-rustls) so that automated builds using an older Rust compiler (1.75) continue to work. It does not change application code, fix a vulnerability, or alter how the software behaves in production.
Security candidateUse `saturating_mul` when multiplying feerates by the fee spike bufby Matt Corallo · b98d7b8a · Apr 13, 2026 · 2 filesMessage 90 · StrongModerate 53Details
Commit message · Matt Corallo
Use `saturating_mul` when multiplying feerates by the fee spike buf
In theory a channel's feerate could be set to some absurd value (millions of satoshis per vB) and we'd overflow the fee spike buffer, accepting the absurd fee and ignoring our fee spike buffer check. This is harmless - the counterparty has much easier ways of bricking the channel if they want, and paying several BTC in fees is probably not the best way. Our commitment transaction and dust fee exposure logic all correctly map the `u32` to a `u64` before multiplying, making them overflow-safe.
Still, its good to fix overflows because it is a remotely-reachable crash in debug builds.
Reported by Jordan Mecom of Block's Security Team
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memory safetysigning or wallet path
AI analysis · Moderate 53/100
This patch fixes a potential integer overflow when calculating Lightning channel fees. If a malicious or misconfigured peer set an extremely high transaction fee rate, the software could overflow a 32-bit integer while applying a safety buffer multiplier. In release builds this would silently wrap around and ignore the safety buffer; in debug builds it would crash. The fix uses saturating multiplication so the result stays at the maximum safe value instead of overflowing. The commit notes this is not practically exploitable for theft because a peer already has easier ways to disrupt a channel, but it removes a remotely reachable debug crash.
The `PaymentConstraints::max_cltv_expiry` field exists to ensure a blinded path expires across the entire path at once - once the path is expired it will be rejected by the introduction node rather than traversing the entire path and failing at the destination.
This was broken by the fact that we were checking the outgoing CLTV value rather than the incoming one, which admittedly isn't clear in the spec but is somewhat implied. Here we fix this, updating a test which was actually (kinda) exploiting this privacy loss rather than allowing the HTLC to fail at the introduction node.
This, of course, does not risk funds loss as our own CLTV policy is still enforced on top. The only impact it could have is a recipient which was relying on blinded path expiry to avoid some cost (e.g. LSPS5 node wakeup cost) involved in receiving an HTLC they ultimately fail, though I'm not aware of any practical deployment where that is a concern.
Reported by Jordan Mecom of Block's Security Team
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explicit security language
AI analysis · Low 43/100
This commit fixes a bug in how Lightning Dev Kit checks expiry times for payments sent through 'blinded paths' (a privacy feature that hides the final recipient). The code was accidentally checking the outgoing expiry time instead of the incoming one. Because of this, a payment could travel deeper into the blinded path than intended before being rejected, slightly weakening the privacy/cost protection that blinded-path expiry is meant to provide. The commit explicitly states this does not risk loss of funds.
Users can now configure two different max percentages for the channel value that can be allocated to inbound HTLCs, one for announced channels, and another for unannounced channels.
We also bump the default maximums to 25% for announced channels, and 100% for unannounced channels, to bring them closer to what people would expect.
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boot or update path
Security candidateReturn `BestBlock` when deserializing chain-synced structsby Matt Corallo · 413c937d · Mar 30, 2026 · 11 filesMessage 85 · StrongTriage 12Details
Commit message · Matt Corallo
Return `BestBlock` when deserializing chain-synced structs
The deserialization of `ChannelMonitor`, `ChannelManager`, and `OutputSweeper` is implemented for a `(BlockHash, ...)` pair rather than on the object itself. This ensures developers are pushed to think about initial chain sync after deserialization and provides the latest chain sync state conviniently at deserialization-time.
In the previous commit we started storing additional recent block hashes in `BestBlock` for use during initial sync to ensure we can handle reorgs while offline if the chain source loses the reorged-out blocks. Here, we move the deserialization routines to be on a `(BestBlock, ...)` pair instead of `(BlockHash, ...)`, providing access to those recent block hashes at deserialization-time.
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boot or update path
Security candidateRemove dead string search in fuzz SearchingOutputby Joost Jager · b9181c36 · Mar 30, 2026 · 1 fileMessage 83 · StrongInformational 15Details
Commit message · Joost Jager
Remove dead string search in fuzz SearchingOutput
The searched-for log message ("Outbound update_fee HTLC buffer overflow") no longer exists in the lightning crate, so the from_utf8 + contains check on every log line was pure waste.
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memory safetyfuzzing or regression evidence
AI analysis · Informational 15/100
This commit is a cleanup of a fuzz-testing helper. It removes a wrapper that scanned every log line for a specific error message that no longer exists in the codebase. Because the searched message was already gone, the wrapper served no purpose and only wasted CPU. There is no change to production Lightning code, no user-facing behavior change, and no security fix.
Security candidateAdd 0-reserve to `accept_inbound_channel_from_trusted_peer`by Leo Nash · 954bf2df · Mar 26, 2026 · 11 filesMessage 65 · AdequateLow 34Details
Commit message · Leo Nash
Add 0-reserve to `accept_inbound_channel_from_trusted_peer`
This new flag sets 0-reserve for the channel opener.
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signing or wallet pathboot or update path
AI analysis · Low 34/100
This commit renames and expands a special Lightning channel-acceptance API. Previously, users could manually accept an inbound channel from a trusted peer and treat it as confirmed immediately (zero-conf). Now the same API also allows setting the counterparty's required channel reserve to zero. A zero reserve means the peer can spend their entire balance and force-close the channel at no cost to themselves, which removes a key financial deterrent against cheating. The change is explicitly documented as dangerous and only appropriate for trusted peers, but it introduces a new risky option that did not exist before.
Security candidatePrevent downgrades in case holder-selected reserve is zero satoshisby Leo Nash · 63e4538e · Mar 26, 2026 · 1 fileMessage 73 · AdequateInformational 22Details
Commit message · Leo Nash
Prevent downgrades in case holder-selected reserve is zero satoshis
We prevent downgrades from 0.3 only in the case where the holder-selected reserve is 0, as we've had support for counterparty selected 0-reserves in prior releases.
There is no need for this sentinel in `FundingScope` serialization code as this would only apply to pending `FundingScope`'s.
Also, if the current scope has some zero-reserve, that reserve is carried over to all pending scopes automatically. Therefore it is not possible for a pending scope to have some 0-reserve without the current one also having it.
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update trust
AI analysis · Informational 22/100
This commit adds a marker to saved channel data so that older versions of the software will refuse to load it if the channel uses a zero-satoshi reserve chosen by the local user. That prevents accidental downgrades that could mishandle such channels, because older releases only understood zero-reserve channels when the remote side chose the zero reserve. It is a forward-compatibility guard, not a fix for an active attack.
Security candidateAdd inbound and outbound checks for zero reserve channelsby Leo Nash · 98b71c88 · Mar 25, 2026 · 7 filesMessage 77 · AdequateHigh 70Details
Commit message · Leo Nash
Add inbound and outbound checks for zero reserve channels
The goal is to prevent any commitments with no outputs, since these are not broadcastable.
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signing or wallet pathboot or update path
AI analysis · High 70/100
This commit fixes a bug in the Lightning Dev Kit where a payment channel could end up with a commitment transaction that has zero spendable outputs. In Bitcoin, a transaction with no outputs is invalid and cannot be broadcast, which would make it impossible to enforce or recover funds from the channel if something goes wrong. The patch adds checks during channel opening, fee updates, and HTLC handling to ensure that zero-reserve channels always keep at least one valid output.
Defer monitor update completions after funding spend
When no_further_updates_allowed() is true and the persister returns Completed, ChainMonitor now overrides the return to InProgress and pushes a MonitorEvent::Completed directly into pending_monitor_events. In release_pending_monitor_events, these deferred completions are appended after per-monitor events, so ChannelManager sees the force-close MonitorEvents before the completion.
This eliminates phantom InProgress entries that would never complete: previously, a rejected pre-close update (e.g. commitment_signed arriving after funding spend) returned InProgress with no completion path, blocking MonitorUpdateCompletionActions (PaymentClaimed, PaymentForwarded) indefinitely. A subsequent post-close update returning Completed would then violate the in-order completion invariant.
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boot or update path
Security candidatefuzz: use process::exit panic hook in stdin_fuzz on macOSby Joost Jager · 39c8b0c8 · Mar 20, 2026 · 72 filesMessage 95 · StrongInformational 15Details
Commit message · Joost Jager
fuzz: use process::exit panic hook in stdin_fuzz on macOS
On macOS, panic=abort causes the process to call abort() which sends SIGABRT. The ReportCrash daemon then tries to generate a crash report, leaving the process stuck in an uninterruptible wait state that cannot be killed even with SIGKILL. This makes stdin_fuzz unusable for crash reproduction on macOS.
Install a custom panic hook (gated behind #[cfg(target_os = "macos")]) that flushes stdout (preserving log output), prints the panic info with a full backtrace to stderr, then calls process::exit(1) to terminate cleanly before the abort machinery runs. The hook is only installed on macOS to avoid interfering with debuggers like GDB on Linux.
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fuzzing or regression evidencesigning or wallet pathboot or update pathauthentication pathparser or protocol path
AI analysis · Informational 15/100
This commit only changes internal fuzz-testing helper programs so they exit cleanly on macOS instead of getting stuck when a crash occurs. It does not affect the actual Lightning Dev Kit library, real Lightning nodes, or any user-facing code. There is no security vulnerability being fixed or introduced.
Release tx_signatures after async monitor update completes
In 83b2d3e, we reworked `ChannelManager::funding_transaction_signed` such that it would also for a user to cancel a splice up until they send `commitment_signed`. Previously, we would would only emit `Event::FundingTransactionReadyForSigning` when both nodes exchanged `commitment_signed` and the corresponding monitor update completed. With the event now being generated immediately after the nodes exchange `tx_complete`, we now need to handle the monitor update not having completed by the time we are ready to send `tx_signatures`. Unfortunately, we also did not have test coverage, allowing this to go unnoticed until being caught by the fuzzer due to a debug assertion. Doing so avoids a potential funds-loss scenario if the funding transaction confirms without the counterparty's signature for our commitment being durably persisted.
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This commit fixes a bug in the Lightning Dev Kit where, during a special channel operation called splicing, the node could release its signatures for the new funding transaction before the local channel monitor had durably saved the counterparty's signature for the new commitment. If the funding transaction confirmed on-chain while the counterparty's signature was not yet persisted, the node could be left unable to enforce its funds, creating a potential loss of funds scenario. The fix delays sending `tx_signatures` until the asynchronous monitor update completes, and adds tests to cover this case.
Security candidateAdd test for monitor update after funding spendby Joost Jager · 1d3704d5 · Mar 19, 2026 · 1 fileMessage 78 · AdequateModerate 56Details
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Add test for monitor update after funding spend
Add a regression test that reproduces the panic when a commitment_signed is processed after the counterparty commitment transaction has confirmed. The ChannelMonitor's no_further_updates_allowed() returns true, causing update_monitor to fail, which ChainMonitor overrides to InProgress. A subsequent preimage claim returning Completed then triggers the per-channel assertion that Completed must not follow InProgress.
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This commit adds a regression test that reproduces a crash (panic) in the Lightning Dev Kit's channel monitoring logic. The crash happens when a blockchain event and a peer message arrive in an unlucky order: after the counterparty's commitment transaction confirms on-chain, the local node still processes a new commitment_signed message from that peer. The code marks the channel monitor as frozen, but a later legitimate payment preimage claim returns a success status, conflicting with the earlier frozen status and triggering an internal assertion that crashes the node.
Replace dual-sync-async persistence panic with Watch contract
Commit 0760f99 ("Disallow dual-sync-async persistence without restarting") added a panic in non-test builds when a Persist implementation returns both Completed and InProgress from the same ChannelManager instance. However, this check runs against the status that ChainMonitor returns to ChannelManager, not the raw Persist result. When ChannelMonitor::update_monitor fails (e.g. a counterparty commitment_signed arrives after a funding spend confirms), ChainMonitor persists the full monitor successfully but overrides the return value to InProgress. If the user's Persist impl only ever returns Completed, this override triggers a false mode-mismatch panic.
This replaces the panic with a per-channel contract at the Watch trait level: a Watch implementation must not return Completed for a channel update while prior InProgress updates are still pending. Switching from Completed to InProgress is always allowed, but switching back is impractical because the Watch implementation cannot observe when ChannelManager has finished processing a MonitorEvent::Completed. The documentation on ChannelMonitorUpdateStatus is updated to describe these rules.
The mode tracking and panic checks from 0760f99 are removed and replaced with a panic that validates the new contract directly on the in-flight update state. Legacy tests that switch the persister between modes mid-flight can opt out via Node::disable_monitor_completeness_assertion().
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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This commit fixes a bug where the Lightning Dev Kit (LDK) node software could crash with a false alarm panic. The panic was meant to catch incorrect use of two persistence modes, but it could also fire in legitimate situations because it checked an overridden status value rather than the raw result from the user's persistence code. The fix replaces the broad panic with a more precise rule at the Watch trait level and adds a test-only opt-out for legacy tests that intentionally switch modes mid-flight.
Security candidateFail HTLCs from late counterparty commitment updates after funding spendby Joost Jager · 3e1a18c8 · Mar 18, 2026 · 4 filesMessage 73 · AdequateTriage 12Details
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Fail HTLCs from late counterparty commitment updates after funding spend
When a ChannelMonitorUpdate containing a new counterparty commitment is dispatched (e.g. via deferred writes) before a channel force-closes but only applied to the in-memory monitor after the commitment transaction has already confirmed on-chain, the outbound HTLCs in that update must be failed back.
Add fail_htlcs_from_update_after_funding_spend to ChannelMonitorImpl which detects this race condition during update_monitor. When a LatestCounterpartyCommitmentTXInfo or LatestCounterpartyCommitment update is applied and the funding output has already been spent, the function iterates all outbound HTLCs from the update and creates OnchainEvent::HTLCUpdate entries for those that need to be failed back. These entries mature after ANTI_REORG_DELAY blocks, giving time for the peer to potentially broadcast the newer commitment.
HTLCs that appear as non-dust outputs in the confirmed commitment (whether counterparty or holder) are skipped, as they will be resolved on-chain via the normal HTLC timeout/success path. HTLCs already fulfilled by the counterparty (tracked in counterparty_fulfilled_htlcs) are also skipped. Duplicate failures from previously-known counterparty commitments are handled gracefully by the ChannelManager.
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Add a `deferred` parameter to `ChainMonitor::new` and `ChainMonitor::new_async_beta`. When set to true, the Watch trait methods (watch_channel and update_channel) will unimplemented!() for now. All existing callers pass false to preserve current behavior.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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