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connectd: limit incoming traffic to 1MB per second.

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Rusty Russell

83/100 · Strong
connectd: limit incoming traffic to 1MB per second.

Decryption is pretty efficient, but incoming traffic can bog down
connectd, especially on smaller nodes, so simply limit it to 1MB per
second.

This triggers in various tests, which is good: shows that it's working,
and that we continue to (slowly!) process traffic.

Changelog-Fixed: connectd: throttle incoming peers to give fairer peer handling under stress.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This change adds a traffic speed limit to the part of Core Lightning that handles incoming peer connections. It caps each peer at 1 megabyte of incoming data per second, with the goal of preventing a fast or aggressive peer from overwhelming the node. The commit describes this as a fairness and stress-handling improvement, not as a security fix, and no external security incident is referenced.

Recommended action

Treat as a hardening/DoS-resilience improvement rather than a critical vulnerability fix. Operators should ensure they are on a version containing this change if they run nodes exposed to untrusted peers. No emergency action is indicated by the commit content alone.

Security signals we found

01

Adds inbound traffic rate limiting to a network-facing daemon

02

Introduces per-peer byte counters and timer-based throttling

03

Test expectations updated to allow 'Throttling incoming peer' log line

04

Changelog labels the change as a fix for fairer peer handling under stress, not a security vulnerability

Risk score

Why this scored 54/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 12/30
Exploitability 14/25
Stealth signal 8/15
Affected reach 10/15
Confidence 7/10
Evidence quality 3/5
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