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lnonion: immutable OnionPacket and OnionHopsDataSingle

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What the developer wrote

Authored by f321x

73/100 · Adequate
lnonion: immutable OnionPacket and OnionHopsDataSingle

Make OnionHopsDataSingle and OnionPacket immutable for safer caching and
handling.

# Conflicts:
# electrum/onion_message.py
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit is a defensive code-hardening change, not a fix for an active security flaw. It makes two internal data structures used in Lightning Network onion routing immutable (unchangeable after creation) so they can be safely cached and shared without accidental or malicious modification. There is no direct evidence in the commit that this change fixes a known exploitable vulnerability.

Recommended action

No urgent action required. Treat as routine hardening. Review downstream consumers of OnionHopsDataSingle/OnionPacket to ensure they no longer rely on mutability, and verify test coverage for the new immutable constructors and serialization paths.

Security signals we found

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Defensive immutability refactor of Lightning onion packet structures

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Use of MappingProxyType to prevent post-construction mutation of nested payloads

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Replacement of in-place field mutation with dataclasses.replace()

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No mention of vulnerability, CVE, bug, or exploit in commit message or diff

Risk score

Why this scored 12/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 0/30
Exploitability 0/25
Stealth signal 0/15
Affected reach 0/15
Confidence 8/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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