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Informational 15 Bitcoin

test: p2p: Nodes ignore unsolicited CMPCTBLOCK's

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What the developer wrote

Authored by David Gumberg

67/100 · Adequate
test: p2p: Nodes ignore unsolicited CMPCTBLOCK's
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit only adds a new functional test to Bitcoin Core. It verifies that nodes ignore unsolicited compact block (CMPCTBLOCK) messages from peers that are not in high-bandwidth mode, while still accepting them from high-bandwidth peers or when explicitly requested. There is no change to production code, so it cannot directly introduce or fix a runtime security vulnerability.

Recommended action

No security action required. Review as normal test-quality change. If the underlying behavior being tested is newly introduced or recently changed, ensure the corresponding production commit was already reviewed for security relevance.

Security signals we found

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Behavioral test coverage for P2P compact block acceptance policy

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Refactoring of test helper to use explicit peer index instead of last peer

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No modification of src/ production code

Risk score

Why this scored 15/100

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