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firmware: port main loop to rust

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Marko Bencun

68/100 · Adequate
firmware: port main loop to rust

simulator: remove u2f workflows. The simulators don't simulate u2f, so it's not needed.

Co-Authored-By: Niklas Dusenlund <niklas.dusenlund@bitbox.swiss>
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit rewrites the BitBox02 hardware wallet's main firmware loop from C to Rust. It is a large refactoring change that moves core USB, Bluetooth/UART, and workflow handling into Rust. The change itself is not a security fix and does not introduce an obvious vulnerability in the diff, but any rewrite of security-critical firmware code carries a risk of subtle behavioral differences or memory-safety edge cases at the C/Rust boundary. The commit message and diff do not describe any security issue or credit a researcher.

Recommended action

Treat this as a high-risk refactoring rather than a vulnerability patch. Review the Rust FFI wrappers for pointer/lifetime correctness, ensure the main loop's ordering and timing behavior matches the C original (especially USB/UART interleaving and BLE power-down flushing), run full device and simulator regression tests, and audit the U2F simulator removal for any loss of test coverage. No immediate patching of a known flaw is indicated.

Security signals we found

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Large language rewrite of security-critical main loop (C → Rust)

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New unsafe FFI bindings and raw pointer conversions at C/Rust boundary

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Use of MaybeUninit::zeroed().assume_init() for USB_FRAME structs

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Removal of U2F workflow handling from simulator code paths

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Compile-time size assertion added for USB report/frame consistency

Risk score

Why this scored 31/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 5/30
Exploitability 5/25
Stealth signal 5/15
Affected reach 10/15
Confidence 4/10
Evidence quality 2/5
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