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Informational 24 Bitcoin

multi: add sphinx router without replay protection

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Gijs van Dam

73/100 · Adequate
multi: add sphinx router without replay protection

Initialize a sphinx router without persistent replay protection logging
for onion message processing. Onion messages don't require replay
protection since they don't involve payment routing.
✓ Specific, descriptive subject✓ Names a concrete action or component✓ Provides detailed explanatory context
The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds a separate onion-message router that deliberately skips the usual replay-protection logging used for payment routing. The change is intentional and documented: onion messages are not payments, so replay protection is considered unnecessary. There is no direct evidence in the commit of a vulnerability being fixed; it looks like feature plumbing for onion messaging support.

Recommended action

Review whether onion-message processing needs any replay or flood mitigation at a higher layer (e.g., per-peer rate limits, proof-of-work, or application-level deduplication), since this commit intentionally removes persistent replay protection from the sphinx layer. Treat as a design choice rather than an immediate vulnerability unless further context shows abuse.

Security signals we found

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New code path uses a no-op replay log for onion-message sphinx processing

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Existing payment sphinx processor is renamed but otherwise unchanged

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Onion messages are explicitly treated as non-payment traffic

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No input validation, rate-limiting, or replay-mitigation logic is added in this diff

Risk score

Why this scored 24/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 2/30
Exploitability 3/25
Stealth signal 4/15
Affected reach 5/15
Confidence 7/10
Evidence quality 3/5
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