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Informational 18 Bitcoin

GET_MASTER_FINGERPRINT support

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Ilya Artemov

25/100 · Opaque
GET_MASTER_FINGERPRINT support
✓ Descriptive subject! Too few words to establish purpose! No meaningful explanatory body
The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds a new way for the Ledger Bitcoin client to ask the device for the wallet's master key fingerprint (a short public identifier). It also keeps an older fallback method for compatibility with devices that do not yet support the new command. The change is a feature addition in the client library, not a fix for a known vulnerability, and the commit message does not describe any security problem.

Recommended action

No immediate action required. Treat as a routine feature commit. If reviewing for defense-in-depth, verify that the new 0xD0 APDU on the device side correctly returns exactly 4 bytes and that exposing the master fingerprint without derivation permission is an intentional, documented design choice.

Security signals we found

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New APDU exposes master key fingerprint without requiring DERIVE_MASTER permission (per inline comment)

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Fallback path still derives master public key via getWalletPublicKey('') and hashes it client-side

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No bounds/length checks are visible in the new getMasterFingerprint() wrapper

04

Commit is a feature addition; no security bug or CVE is mentioned

Risk score

Why this scored 18/100

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