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WIF Store upgrade

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Authored by scgbckbone

28/100 · Opaque
WIF Store upgrade
✓ Subject identifies a change! No meaningful explanatory body! Opaque security-relevant change
The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit upgrades the COLDCARD firmware's WIF Store feature so that individual private keys imported as WIF can sign transactions even when the PSBT file lacks the usual BIP-32 key-path metadata. It adds address/scriptPubKey auto-detection, descriptor export, and Electrum-style watch-only wallet support. The change is primarily a feature enhancement, but it touches sensitive signing paths and removes a previous safety assertion that required key paths to be at least depth 8, which slightly weakens one guardrail.

Recommended action

Treat as a feature commit with security-sensitive signing changes. Reviewers should verify that the synthetic subpath injection cannot be abused to bypass multisig validation, that the removed depth-8 assertion does not reintroduce master-key signing risks, and that the new no-key error path cannot be triggered by a malicious PSBT to deny service. Regression testing should focus on address-only PSBTs from Electrum and Bitcoin Core.

Security signals we found

01

Signing path now accepts PSBT inputs with no BIP-32 derivation data if a matching WIF-store pubkey is found

02

Synthetic subpaths with zero fingerprint are injected for WIF-matched inputs

03

Removed assertion that key paths must be at least depth 8 (vl >= 8)

04

New guard raises FatalPSBTIssue when no input keys belong to the device

05

Added tests verifying unrelated WIFs cannot sign presigned foreign PSBTs

Risk score

Why this scored 40/100

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