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Disable all plugins when BTCPay Server crash during startup (#7046)

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Nicolas Dorier

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Disable all plugins when BTCPay Server crash during startup (#7046)
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit changes how BTCPay Server handles crashes caused by plugins during startup. Previously, if a plugin caused a crash, the server would try to disable just that one plugin. The new code can disable all plugins when the server cannot tell which specific plugin is at fault, and it also avoids disabling built-in 'system' plugins. This is a reliability and recovery improvement rather than a fix for a remote attack.

Recommended action

Treat as a defensive hardening patch. Review whether disabling all user plugins on ambiguous startup crashes could itself be used as a denial-of-service vector (a malicious or buggy plugin could force all other plugins offline), and consider whether administrators should be prompted before mass-disabling. No immediate exploit mitigation is evident.

Security signals we found

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Crash recovery / fault isolation hardening

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Prevents accidental disabling of system plugins

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Adds broad disable-all-plugins fallback on ambiguous startup failures

Risk score

Why this scored 31/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 8/30
Exploitability 3/25
Stealth signal 4/15
Affected reach 6/15
Confidence 7/10
Evidence quality 3/5
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