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Informational 15 Bitcoin

kernel: expose witness stack for btck_TransactionInput

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Peter Zafonte

50/100 · Thin
kernel: expose witness stack for btck_TransactionInput
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds a new public read-only API to the Bitcoin Core 'kernel' library so that outside programs can inspect the 'witness stack' of a transaction input. The witness stack is part of how modern Bitcoin transactions (SegWit/Taproot) carry signatures and scripts. There is no bug fix, behavior change, or security patch here—only a new way to read data that was already stored internally. The change is accompanied by new tests.

Recommended action

No security action required. Treat as a normal feature/API addition. Reviewers may want to confirm that the lifetime documentation ('returned witness stack is not owned and depends on the lifetime of the transaction input') is clear to API consumers, but this is a documentation/usability concern, not a security defect.

Security signals we found

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No security-relevant signals present in the diff or commit message.

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Change is purely an API surface expansion for read-only access to existing data.

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No memory-unsafe patterns introduced: uses existing opaque-handle wrappers, copy/destroy symmetry, and asserts on index bounds.

Risk score

Why this scored 15/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 0/30
Exploitability 0/25
Stealth signal 0/15
Affected reach 2/15
Confidence 9/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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