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High 74 Cryptographic libraries

wallet: add pending_tx sanity checker

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What the developer wrote

Authored by koe

60/100 · Adequate
wallet: add pending_tx sanity checker

Co-authored-by: j-berman <justinberman@protonmail.com>
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds a comprehensive sanity checker for Monero wallet transactions before they are signed or broadcast. It verifies that the transaction's outputs, inputs, fees, change address, payment IDs, and key images all match what the wallet expects. This is a defensive security improvement designed to catch malicious or buggy transaction construction—especially relevant for hardware/cold wallets and multisig—before funds can be moved to the wrong place.

Recommended action

Treat this as a security-hardening commit. Review the new validator for completeness, especially the disabled/redacted code paths and the cold-wallet trust assumptions noted in TODO comments. Ensure the functional tests cover multisig and hardware-wallet flows. Consider whether the validator should be run at additional call sites (e.g., before `commit_tx` or `relay_tx`). No immediate emergency response is indicated, but downstream wallets and services should adopt this validation.

Security signals we found

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New defensive validation routine for pending transactions

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Re-derivation and verification of one-time output addresses and view tags

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Reconstruction and comparison of amount commitments and encoded amounts

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Change-address re-derivation to ensure change belongs to the sender

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Key-image alignment checks against wallet transfer store

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Input ring/offset consistency checks

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Duplicate-destination and subgroup validation of public keys

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Integration into cold-signing, multisig signing, and signed-tx loading paths

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Functional tests added for multi-subaddress and sweep cold-signing scenarios

Risk score

Why this scored 74/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 25/30
Exploitability 15/25
Stealth signal 10/15
Affected reach 12/15
Confidence 8/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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