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htlcswitch+peer: set and read aux custom records

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What the developer wrote

Authored by George Tsagkarelis

68/100 · Adequate
htlcswitch+peer: set and read aux custom records

This is the final step, we actually call the interface and either
provide or retrieve the custom features over the message. We also notify
the aux components when channel reestablish is received.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds a new optional plugin hook called AuxChannelNegotiator to LND. It lets external 'auxiliary' components attach custom data to Lightning protocol handshake messages (init and channel re-establishment) and read the peer's custom data. The change itself is infrastructure: it wires up the hook but does not contain the actual plugin logic. Any security risk depends entirely on what future external components do with this hook, so on its own it is best viewed as a new attack surface rather than a vulnerability.

Recommended action

Treat this as a new privileged extension point. Review the AuxChannelNegotiator interface contract and any implementations for proper validation of peer-supplied custom records, length limits, and safe error handling. Ensure that only trusted auxiliary components can be registered, since they can inject handshake data and observe re-establishment events.

Security signals we found

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New optional wire-message hook processes peer-controlled custom records during protocol handshake

02

Custom records from init messages are passed to an external negotiator without visible validation in this diff

03

Merged custom records are sent in the init message, so a misbehaving negotiator could alter handshake contents

04

Channel re-establish notifications expose a sensitive protocol event to external components

05

No input sanitization, size limits, or error-handling details are visible in the changed code

Risk score

Why this scored 25/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 5/30
Exploitability 4/25
Stealth signal 3/15
Affected reach 4/15
Confidence 6/10
Evidence quality 3/5
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