plm-lottery/BUGS.md

# Known bugs

A second full-codebase audit on 2026-07-27 found **25 further issues** (4 critical, 6 high,
7 medium, 8 low). B-25 through B-49 are now **all fixed** (see "Previously fixed" below) —
nothing from either audit remains open. The 139-test suite was green at the time of the audit,
so none of these were caught by existing coverage — every fix landed with a regression test,
which brought the suite from 139 to 253.

The recurring pattern behind those findings is worth keeping in mind for the next one: the code
is rigorous about the failure modes that have actually been hit, and silent about the ones that
have not. The payout phase is now fully recoverable; the "drawing" phase (waiting on a block) is
now observable (B-36) but still has no equivalent resume-after-restart — see "Known gaps / TODO"
in [CLAUDE.md](CLAUDE.md), which is also where the by-design limitations (single-shared-token
admin auth, single-process assumptions, no user-facing history, etc.) are documented. This file
stays as the record of what was found and fixed; a new finding gets the next B-nn and its own
regression test.

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## Previously fixed

- **B-25** — the payout had no two-phase write, unlike bets and withdrawals
- **B-26** — a payout failure or a process restart could wedge a round in `paying_out` forever
- **B-27** — an RBF bump reset the reconciler's own abandon clock, so a repeatedly-bumped tx was never abandoned
- **B-28** — a hostile Electrum server (or a MITM) could single-handedly pick the round's winner
- **B-29** — a UTXO absent from one server's `listunspent` was marked spent immediately, irreversibly, on a single unauthenticated reply
- **B-30** — a lost scripthash subscription meant a user's deposits were never credited, with no periodic safety net
- **B-31** — resubscribing on reconnect ran serially before anything else started, freezing the chain tip (and so an in-flight draw) for the whole sweep
- **B-42** — Swagger/ReDoc/the raw OpenAPI JSON enumerated the entire API surface, admin endpoints included, to anyone who requested them; now off by default and gated behind `ENABLE_API_DOCS`
- **B-43** — the Caddyfile sent no CSP, no `X-Frame-Options`/`frame-ancestors`, and no HSTS, on a page whose JWT lives in `localStorage`
- **B-44** — README's Quick start documented a bare `uvicorn --reload` workflow, and `docs/running-the-server.md` still had a matching "Locale / venv" section, both contradicting CLAUDE.md's Docker-only policy
- **B-45** — `/admin/rounds`/`/admin/audit-log`'s `limit` had no bounds (`-1` means "everything" on SQLite), and `/admin/pending-transactions` had no limit or status filter at all
- **B-46** — `secrets.compare_digest` on a `str` raises `TypeError` on non-ASCII input, turning an invalid admin token with non-ASCII characters into a 500 instead of a 403
- **B-49** — `_release_failed_bet`/`_release_failed_withdrawal` restored the balance without publishing an SSE update, so a rolled-back bet or withdrawal stayed on the dashboards until their next poll
- **B-48** — `select_utxos` had no cap on input count, so a fragmented address built an ever-larger transaction whose fee (deducted from the amount being moved) ate into the bet or withdrawal, up to the point of being non-standard
- **B-47** — `raw_tx_hex` and `payload_json` were unbounded `String` columns (`VARCHAR` with no length) — fine on SQLite/PostgreSQL, rejected by backends like MySQL that require a length
- **B-32** — an RBF bump could retry forever below BIP125's relay-mandated minimum fee delta, with no ceiling on the fee rate either
- **B-33** — `POST /auth/login` had no rate limiting, so a password could be brute-forced against an enumerable username list
- **B-34** — password change/reset didn't invalidate already-issued JWTs, so a stolen token survived a change meant to lock it out
- **B-35** — API timestamps round-tripped as naive datetimes, so the frontend parsed them as local time instead of UTC
- **B-36** — a stalled draw wait had no timeout, no log, and no audit trail, so a frozen round showed nothing in `/admin`
- **B-37** — a withdrawal covered by unconfirmed change answered "insufficient balance" instead of distinguishing it from actually having no funds
- **B-38** — the SSE subscriber cap was global, so one client opening enough connections degraded every other user to polling
- **B-39** — SQLite ran without WAL or a `busy_timeout`, so a writer could block every reader and a second writer failed immediately instead of waiting
- **B-40** — `bump_fee` held a DB session open across N slow network calls, and computed a prevout's value from a server-reported float instead of an exact integer
- **B-41** — confirmation/reconciliation depended on a verbose `blockchain.transaction.get` reply many Electrum servers reject, and abandonment relied on fragile substring-matching of an error message

See git history for the fix-by-fix breakdown (commits `f13f685`, `50a43ae`, `933760e`, and the
B-28/B-29/B-30/B-31/B-32/B-33/B-34/B-35/B-36/B-37/B-38/B-39/B-40/B-41/B-42/B-43/B-44/B-45/B-46/B-47 fixes). Suite grew from 139 to 248 tests over the twenty-three.

A full-codebase audit on 2026-07-26 (commit `d4e0974`) found 24 bugs across every Python
module under `app/`, both static frontends, and the Docker/Caddy deployment — 5 critical,
7 high, 7 medium, 5 low. All 24 were fixed and verified against the current code on
2026-07-27; the fixes are covered by the regression suite (grew from 79 to 139 tests) and
five of them were additionally confirmed against a real mainnet deployment (see git history
between `fb734bb` (documenting the findings) and `845ba98` (recording the audit outcome) for
the fix-by-fix breakdown — each commit message names the bugs it closes and where their
tests live).