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Moderate 60 Bitcoin

Reuse sensitive values during PSBT validation

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Jack

45/100 · Thin
Reuse sensitive values during PSBT validation
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This firmware update changes how Passport validates Bitcoin transaction files (PSBTs) before signing. It makes two main improvements: it reuses the wallet's secret seed for fewer key-derivation operations, and it verifies that the claimed input amounts are backed by real signing keys before trusting those amounts. The commit message and code comments suggest this closes a gap where a malicious or malformed PSBT could trick the device into recording an incorrect input amount in its history cache, which could later mislead the user about fees or balances. A second change also prevents re-signing a transaction that already has a signature, which could reduce certain replay or state-confusion risks.

Recommended action

Treat this commit as a security-hardening fix and include it in the next firmware release. Review whether the amount-cache poisoning scenario could have been exploited in practice and consider issuing a security note if user funds or fee verification could have been affected. No CVE is referenced in the commit; evaluate whether one should be requested.

Security signals we found

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Deferred and batched sensitive key derivation during PSBT validation

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Amount-cache update moved after ownership/key-path proof

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New assertion to block re-signing already-signed non-multisig inputs

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Expanded unit tests for multisig, taproot, and missing signing paths

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Code comments explicitly describe preventing invalid metadata from being recorded

Risk score

Why this scored 60/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 18/30
Exploitability 12/25
Stealth signal 10/15
Affected reach 10/15
Confidence 7/10
Evidence quality 3/5
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