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security improvements

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Marko Bencun

23/100 · Opaque
security improvements
✓ Subject identifies a change✓ Names security-relevant behavior explicitly! Too few words to establish purpose! No meaningful explanatory body! Opaque security-relevant change
The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This BitBox02 firmware update is a broad security patch that fixes several independent bugs: it prevents a maliciously oversized USB report from overflowing memory, stops a corrupted Bluetooth pairing database from being read or written with invalid lengths, allows full-size firmware images in the bootloader, hardens how Bitcoin, Cardano, Ethereum, and typed-data (EIP-712) transactions are parsed and shown to the user, and adds a user confirmation before creating backups. The changes are defensive and reduce the chance that an attacker could trick the device into signing something the user did not intend.

Recommended action

Treat this as a security update. Users should upgrade to firmware v9.26.3 and bootloader v1.1.3 when available. Developers should review the individual hardening changes for completeness, especially the Bitcoin output-type checks and the Ethereum streaming threshold, to ensure no edge cases remain unhandled.

Security signals we found

01

Bounds check added to USB HID Set Report input length

02

BLE bond DB length validation hardened against negative and oversized values

03

Bootloader firmware image size limit relaxed to intended maximum

04

Bitcoin transaction output validation tightened for OP_RETURN, silent payments, and payment requests

05

Cardano transaction network-binding check and overflow-hardened arithmetic added

06

Ethereum streaming/non-streaming data length threshold enforced

07

EIP-712 typed message schema and chainId validation added

08

Backup creation now requires explicit on-device user confirmation

09

Backup loading now verifies seed id matches backup directory

010

Cryptographic key material dependencies updated to use zeroize feature

Risk score

Why this scored 76/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 24/30
Exploitability 18/25
Stealth signal 10/15
Affected reach 12/15
Confidence 8/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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