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Informational 21 Bitcoin

mining: add getTransactionsByTxID() IPC method

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Sjors Provoost

45/100 · Thin
mining: add getTransactionsByTxID() IPC method
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds a new inter-process communication (IPC) method that lets an external mining process ask the Bitcoin Core node to look up raw transactions in the memory pool by their transaction IDs. It is a straightforward read-only lookup: found transactions are returned, missing ones come back as empty/null. There is no obvious security flaw in the change itself, but it does slightly expand what the IPC mining interface can access.

Recommended action

Treat as a routine feature addition. Reviewers should confirm the IPC mining endpoint is appropriately authenticated/authorized in the broader IPC framework, and consider whether batch lookups need rate limiting or maximum request size bounds to avoid mempool-scanning denial of service, though none is evident in this commit.

Security signals we found

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New IPC surface added to mining interface

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Read-only mempool access by txid

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Mempool lock (cs) held during batch lookup

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Missing transactions returned as null/empty rather than error

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No input validation or rate limiting visible in the diff

Risk score

Why this scored 21/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 2/30
Exploitability 2/25
Stealth signal 2/15
Affected reach 3/15
Confidence 8/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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