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Informational 19 Bitcoin

feat(core): implement button event emulation on driver level

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What the developer wrote

Authored by tychovrahe

62/100 · Adequate
feat(core): implement button event emulation on driver level

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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds a debug-only feature that lets software simulate physical button presses (press, release, click) on Trezor hardware wallets. It is compiled in only when the DEBUGLINK build flag is set, which is intended for development and automated testing, not production firmware. The feature could let a connected debugging host or test harness inject fake button events into the normal button-handling path.

Recommended action

Verify that DEBUGLINK builds are never shipped to end users and that the debug link interface is disabled or authenticated in production. If DEBUGLINK can be enabled at runtime or via a bootloader/testmode path, add an explicit runtime authorization check before button_debug state is merged into button_get_event(). Review whether the debug queue should be isolated from real button events in security-sensitive flows such as PIN/seed confirmation.

Security signals we found

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Synthetic button events are merged into the production button state path (state |= button_debug_get_state())

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No authentication, authorization, or rate-limiting logic is visible in the injected event path

03

Feature is gated only by the DEBUGLINK compile-time macro, not runtime enablement

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Emulated events use the same button_event_t structures and BTN_EVENT_DOWN/BTN_EVENT_UP types as real events

05

Queue overflow is logged but does not hard-fail or signal an error to callers

Risk score

Why this scored 19/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 2/30
Exploitability 3/25
Stealth signal 2/15
Affected reach 2/15
Confidence 7/10
Evidence quality 3/5
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