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lnwire: add OnionMessagePayload

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Gijs van Dam

58/100 · Thin
lnwire: add OnionMessagePayload

The new wire message defines the OnionMessagePayload, FinalHopPayload,
ReplyPath, and related TLV encoding/decoding logic.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds new code to LND that handles a new kind of Lightning network message called an 'onion message payload.' It is a feature addition, not a fix. The code reads and writes message fields such as reply paths, encrypted recipient data, and special sub-messages for invoices. There is no direct evidence in the commit that this introduces a security vulnerability, but any new network parser can carry implementation risks.

Recommended action

Treat as a normal feature commit. Reviewers should verify that callers of OnionMessagePayload.Decode enforce overall message-size limits and that unknown final-hop TLVs are validated before use in higher layers. No immediate security patch is indicated by this commit alone.

Security signals we found

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New network message parser added to lnwire package

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TLV decode preserves unknown final-hop records (type >= 64), which could affect protocol behavior if validation is incomplete elsewhere

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Reply path length is decoded from a single uint8 and checked against the remaining byte length via l > 67

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No bounds check on total reply-path length beyond the minimum; relies on io.Reader EOF behavior

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No vendor security disclosure or CVE references present in commit or supplied references

Risk score

Why this scored 21/100

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