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ensure cormorant responses and notifications are always serialized per client connection

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Authored by Craig Raw

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ensure cormorant responses and notifications are always serialized per client connection
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit fixes a race condition in Sparrow Wallet's built-in Electrum server (Cormorant). Previously, a response to a wallet client and an asynchronous notification (like a new block or a balance update) could be written to the same network connection at the same time from different threads, potentially interleaving their bytes and producing garbled JSON. The fix routes all outgoing messages through a single synchronized method so they are sent one at a time per client connection. The included test demonstrates that a notification now waits until an in-progress response finishes writing, and that each message arrives as a complete line.

Recommended action

Treat this as a reliability and likely minor security fix. Review whether any other transports or server paths in Sparrow write to the same socket without synchronization. Ensure the synchronized send method is the only write path for a given client connection. No immediate incident response is indicated unless garbled Electrum traffic has been observed causing client confusion or denial of service.

Security signals we found

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Race condition on shared socket output stream

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Concurrent writes from RPC response path and event-bus notification path

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Potential interleaving/framing of JSON-RPC messages on same TCP connection

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Thread-safety improvements to subscription state (volatile, ConcurrentHashMap)

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New regression test specifically verifying serialization of overlapping response and notification

Risk score

Why this scored 44/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 12/30
Exploitability 8/25
Stealth signal 7/15
Affected reach 6/15
Confidence 7/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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