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testing

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Peter D. Gray

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testing
✓ Mentions testing or verification! Very short subject! Too few words to establish purpose! No meaningful explanatory body! Opaque security-relevant change
The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adjusts how COLDCARD's 'hobbled mode' handles temporary seeds and the Seed Vault. Hobbled mode is a restricted operating mode (often tied to a special PIN or duress-like setup). The change makes temporary seeds read-only: users can import and use an existing temporary seed for signing, but cannot generate new words or save the temporary seed into the Seed Vault. It also exposes a 'Temporary Seed' menu under Advanced/Tools when a spending-policy flag called 'okeys' is enabled. The commit is titled 'testing' and appears to be a work-in-progress feature patch with added tests, not a published security fix.

Recommended action

Treat this as a feature/refactoring commit in progress rather than a confirmed vulnerability. Reviewers should verify that hobbled mode cannot be bypassed to write to Seed Vault, that the removed assertion in make_ephemeral_seed_menu does not open an unintended code path, and that the 'okeys' policy correctly enforces read-only access. If this commit is part of a security release, request the vendor's changelog or advisory for confirmation.

Security signals we found

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hobbled mode restriction change

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Seed Vault write suppression in hobbled mode

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temporary seed import allowed but generation blocked in hobbled mode

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menu gating by sssp_spending_policy('okeys')

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assertion removal around hobbled ephemeral seed menu

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test expansion for hobbled temporary seed workflows

Risk score

Why this scored 35/100

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