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Implement PSBTv2 field merging

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Ava Chow

35/100 · Opaque
Implement PSBTv2 field merging
✓ Descriptive subject! No meaningful explanatory body! Opaque security-relevant change
The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit updates how Bitcoin Core combines two Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions (PSBTs). It adds checks to prevent merging PSBTs of different versions, propagates failure if any input or output cannot be merged, and copies new PSBTv2-only fields such as sequence numbers, locktimes, and modifiable flags. The change is a correctness and robustness improvement rather than a clear security fix.

Recommended action

Review as part of normal PSBTv2 feature work. No immediate security response is indicated, but downstream callers should verify they handle the new false return from Merge and do not ignore it.

Security signals we found

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Version-confusion prevention: merging is now rejected if the two PSBTs have different versions, which could have led to inconsistent or malformed transaction state.

02

Failure propagation: input/output Merge methods now return booleans and abort the top-level merge on failure, reducing silent data loss.

03

New PSBTv2 fields are now merged, completing support for the v2 specification.

Risk score

Why this scored 28/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 5/30
Exploitability 4/25
Stealth signal 4/15
Affected reach 6/15
Confidence 6/10
Evidence quality 3/5
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