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Low 27 Cryptographic libraries

Add Socks v5 support to daemon and wallet

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Lee *!* Clagett

45/100 · Thin
Add Socks v5 support to daemon and wallet
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds SOCKS5 proxy support to the Monero daemon and wallet, expanding the older SOCKS4/SOCKS4a support. It introduces new URI parsing for proxy strings, optional username/password authentication, IPv6 support, and new command-line options. The change is a feature addition, not a documented security fix. The code does include some security-relevant notes (for example, warning that proxy credentials may appear in the process list), but nothing in the commit message or diff states that a vulnerability is being patched.

Recommended action

Treat this as a normal feature commit. Reviewers should verify that SOCKS5 credential parsing does not introduce buffer overruns, that percent-decoding rejects malformed sequences, and that the new asynchronous state machine handles short reads and malformed server replies safely. Users should follow the documentation's advice to keep credentials out of the process list by using a config file.

Security signals we found

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New network-facing SOCKS5 authentication code added

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Proxy credentials are parsed from URI and transmitted in cleartext over the local SOCKS connection (expected per SOCKS5 user/pass auth)

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Documentation explicitly warns that username/password will appear in the process list

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Wallet restricts non-.onion/.i2p proxy destinations unless custom SSL verification is configured, which is a security control

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No assertion of a vulnerability fix or security patch in commit message or diff

Risk score

Why this scored 27/100

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