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Low 25 Monero

CW-1193-Add-batch-fetching-of-transactions-to-Electrum (#3104)

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Authored by Serhii

81/100 · Strong
CW-1193-Add-batch-fetching-of-transactions-to-Electrum (#3104)

* support batched Electrum calls and processing for update transactions

* add timeout handling

* Revert "add timeout handling"

* adjust batch sizes and add chunk error handling

* fix merge conflict

* add fallback from batch fetching to single-call flow
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit rewrites how Cake Wallet talks to Electrum Bitcoin servers so it can request many transactions at once instead of one by one. The change is framed as a performance improvement. It also touches how incoming server responses are parsed and matched to waiting requests. There is no claim in the commit that this fixes a security bug, but any rewrite of network-and-state handling can introduce subtle correctness issues.

Recommended action

Treat as a functional/performance change rather than a confirmed security fix. Review the batch response parsing for robustness: ensure malformed or out-of-order Electrum responses cannot spoof task completion, that id parsing failures are handled safely, and that the timeout path cannot complete a completer twice. Consider fuzzing the _handleResponse batch branch and verifying the single-call fallback is always exercised when batch support is uncertain.

Security signals we found

01

Network protocol parsing changed: json.decode casts to Map<String, dynamic> removed, dynamic handling added for both List (batch) and Map (single) responses

02

New batch response demuxing relies on string splitting/parsing of response 'id' fields to reconstruct the internal task key

03

Batch capability is probed at runtime with a short timeout and cached in _isBatchSupported

04

Timeout logic added for batched socket calls via Timer; on timeout the completer is completed with an error and the task is removed

05

Transaction history update logic now removes transactions 'no longer returned by the api, presumed replaced/invalid' when address history is empty or missing entries

06

New recursive address discovery (discoverAddressesBatch) and chunked history fetching added

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No explicit security framing, CVE, or advisory referenced in commit message or diff

Risk score

Why this scored 25/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 4/30
Exploitability 5/25
Stealth signal 4/15
Affected reach 6/15
Confidence 4/10
Evidence quality 2/5
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