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Require Route::route_params

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Valentine Wallace

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Require Route::route_params

This field has always been set since 0.0.117. Since we're making it required
here, routes created/serialized prior to 0.0.117 will fail to deserialize on
0.4.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit makes a piece of routing data called route_params mandatory in the Lightning Dev Kit library. Previously it was optional, and the code would silently invent a dummy value if it was missing. Now it must always be provided, and old serialized routes written before version 0.0.117 will fail to load. This is a deliberate backwards-compatibility break, not a security fix, and it reduces the risk of inconsistent or missing routing information rather than introducing a vulnerability.

Recommended action

Treat as a normal API/compatability change. Review downstream code that constructs Route manually or deserializes old routes; update callers to always populate route_params and avoid relying on pre-0.0.117 serialized routes. No urgent security patch is indicated.

Security signals we found

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API hardening: removes silent fallback to dummy RouteParameters

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Backwards-compatibility break for pre-0.0.117 serialized Route objects

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No new bounds checks, cryptographic operations, or network parsing changes

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No mention of vulnerability, CVE, or security advisory in commit message or diff

Risk score

Why this scored 22/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 5/30
Exploitability 0/25
Stealth signal 0/15
Affected reach 5/15
Confidence 8/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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