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Allow nodes to overshoot the final htlc amount and expiry
When nodes receive HTLCs, they verify that the contents of those HTLCs match the intructions that the sender provided in the onion. It is important to ensure that intermediate nodes and final nodes have similar requirements, otherwise a malicious intermediate node could easily probe whether the next node is the final recipient or not. Unfortunately, the requirements for intermediate nodes were more lenient than the requirements for final nodes. Intermediate nodes allowed overpaying and increasing the CLTV expiry, whereas final nodes required a perfect equality between the HTLC values and the onion values. This provided a trivial way of probing: when relaying an HTLC, nodes could relay 1 msat more than what the onion instructed (or increase the outgoing expiry by 1). If the next node was an intermediate node, they would accept this HTLC, but if the next node was the recipient, they would reject it. We update those requirements to fix this probing attack vector.
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