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Informational 19 Bitcoin

gui: Add restore_and_migrate function to restore then migrate a wallet

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Ava Chow

73/100 · Adequate
gui: Add restore_and_migrate function to restore then migrate a wallet

restore_and_migrate first restores a wallet file to the wallets
directory in the expected layout, then it performs legacy to descriptor
wallet migration on the restored wallet.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds a new GUI feature that lets a user restore a wallet backup file and then automatically convert it from the older 'legacy' wallet format to the newer 'descriptor' wallet format. It shows confirmation and progress dialogs, copies the backup into the normal wallets folder without changing the original file, and then runs the existing migration logic. There is no obvious security bug in the change itself; it is a user-facing convenience feature built on top of existing wallet restore and migration code.

Recommended action

No immediate security action required. As with any wallet-restore feature, users should verify they are restoring from a trusted backup and understand that migration creates new descriptor wallets and a legacy backup. Reviewers may want to confirm that the supplied path and wallet_name are validated by the underlying restoreWallet implementation, since this GUI code does not perform additional sanitization.

Security signals we found

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New GUI wallet restore+migration flow added

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Uses existing restoreWallet and do_migrate backend functions

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User confirmation dialog present before action

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Original backup file is explicitly not modified

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No input validation or path sanitization visible in this diff

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No evidence of vulnerability, exploit, or security fix in the diff

Risk score

Why this scored 19/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 2/30
Exploitability 1/25
Stealth signal 1/15
Affected reach 3/15
Confidence 8/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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