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fix: coincurve build issue

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Lakshya Singh

90/100 · Strong
fix: coincurve build issue

hatchling build requires license file but the build that coincurve
21.0.0 uses doesn’t account for that in `build_hatch.py` this was added
to prevent need of `cffi` as a runtime dependency but we can probably
live without it until it gets fixed.

change MR: https://github.com/ofek/coincurve/pull/176

reported issue: https://github.com/ofek/coincurve/issues/187
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit fixes a build problem by pinning a Python cryptography helper library (coincurve) to an older version. It is a build/dependency workaround, not a fix for a security vulnerability in Core Lightning itself. The change prevents installation failures caused by a packaging bug in coincurve 21.0.0, but it does not patch any runtime security flaw.

Recommended action

Treat as a routine build fix. Monitor upstream coincurve issue/PR for a proper fix and unpin or update the dependency once coincurve 21.x packaging is corrected. No urgent security deployment is required.

Security signals we found

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Dependency version pin to avoid a broken upstream release

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Build/packaging failure workaround, not a vulnerability patch

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No changes to cryptographic logic, network handling, or privilege boundaries

Risk score

Why this scored 19/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 2/30
Exploitability 1/25
Stealth signal 1/15
Affected reach 3/15
Confidence 8/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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