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multi: endpoints for onion messages

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Gijs van Dam

68/100 · Adequate
multi: endpoints for onion messages

This commit creates the necessary endpoints for onion messages.
Specifically, it adds the following:

- `SendOnionMessage` endpoint to send onion messages.
- `SubscribeOnionMessages` endpoint to subscribe to incoming onion
messages.

It uses the `msgmux` package to handle the onion messages.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds new RPC endpoints to LND that allow users to send and receive 'onion messages'—a type of privacy-preserving Lightning network message. The change is a feature addition, not a bug fix. There is no indication in the commit or supplied references that this resolves a security vulnerability or was disclosed as a security issue.

Recommended action

Treat this as a routine feature commit, not a security patch. If deploying, review the new RPC surface for authorization, rate limiting, and resource consumption in subsequent commits, since this patch appears to be an initial implementation.

Security signals we found

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New network-facing RPC endpoints added with offchain read/write permissions

02

Raw onion blobs are forwarded peer-to-subscriber without visible payload validation in this patch

03

No rate limiting, authentication beyond macaroons, or size bounds visible in the diff

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TODO comment indicates path-finding is not yet implemented, so this is an early/partial feature

Risk score

Why this scored 28/100

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