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Informational 15 Bitcoin

Use channel_id over short_channel_id for payments in chanmon_consistency

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Wilmer Paulino

73/100 · Adequate
Use channel_id over short_channel_id for payments in chanmon_consistency

The `short_channel_id` is no longer guaranteed to be stable with
splicing now that the fuzzer can actually lock splices.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit updates an internal fuzz-testing harness (a tool that automatically throws random inputs at the code to find bugs) to use a more stable channel identifier when building test payments. It does not change the production Lightning node code that real users run, and there is no indication it fixes a security vulnerability. The change is purely about making the fuzzer work correctly now that the codebase supports 'splicing,' a feature that can change a channel's short identifier.

Recommended action

No security action required. Treat as a normal test-harness maintenance commit.

Security signals we found

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No production code changed

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Fuzz harness only

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No cryptographic, consensus, or network parsing changes

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No memory-unsafe code introduced

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No privilege or authorization changes

Risk score

Why this scored 15/100

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