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Merge remote-tracking branch 'agent/benma-agent/validate-py-antiklepto-signatures'

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Marko Bencun

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'agent/benma-agent/validate-py-antiklepto-signatures'
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds extra safety checks in the BitBox02 Python library for ECDSA signatures used in Bitcoin and Ethereum signing. It now validates that signatures have the correct length, use valid numbers, and use the safer low-S form. It also validates the recovery ID for recoverable signatures. These are defensive hardening changes rather than a fix for a known active exploit, but they close a gap where a malicious or buggy device could return malformed or malleable signatures that the host software would previously accept.

Recommended action

Treat as a security hardening improvement. Review whether the firmware itself enforces equivalent low-S and recovery-ID validation, since this patch only hardens the Python host library. Ensure downstream consumers of the Python library upgrade to a version containing this commit.

Security signals we found

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Defensive validation added for ECDSA signature format and low-S encoding

02

Recovery ID range validation added for recoverable signatures

03

Anti-Klepto verification now rejects malformed/malleable signatures before nonce verification

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Non-Anti-Klepto signing path also validates recoverable signatures

05

CI workflow extended to run Python unit tests

Risk score

Why this scored 37/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 8/30
Exploitability 6/25
Stealth signal 5/15
Affected reach 7/15
Confidence 7/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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