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lock the cormorant store against client connection reads and serve history as a copy, and close the client socket however its handler exits

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Authored by Craig Raw

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lock the cormorant store against client connection reads and serve history as a copy, and close the client socket however its handler exits
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit fixes two reliability issues in Sparrow Wallet's built-in Electrum server (Cormorant). First, it makes sure the internal transaction store is locked while being read or updated, and returns a fresh copy of a wallet's history so a slow client doesn't see data change mid-request. Second, it ensures the client network socket is always closed when the handler finishes, even if something goes wrong. These are defensive fixes that prevent data races and resource leaks rather than obvious user-facing exploits.

Recommended action

Treat as a worthwhile hardening patch. Review whether any other shared Cormorant state (mempool maps, block height maps) is exposed directly without synchronization or defensive copies, and ensure all client sockets and streams are closed on abnormal handler exits.

Security signals we found

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Concurrency: shared mutable store accessed by client handler and polling threads now synchronized

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Data consistency: history returned as a defensive copy to avoid iterator seeing concurrent modifications

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Resource leak: client socket now closed in finally block regardless of exception path

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Tests added to assert both the copy behavior and socket closure

Risk score

Why this scored 35/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 8/30
Exploitability 6/25
Stealth signal 7/15
Affected reach 5/15
Confidence 6/10
Evidence quality 3/5
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