fix(#2525): bound the derived slippage limit against the on-chain oracle - #2538
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Decision was "do all three". Two of the three turned out to be already done, so this is item 1 plus a correction that #2533's keeper fix makes necessary. ITEM 1 — the client slippage limit was only as honest as the price feed `limit_price_e6` is the BINDING on-chain slippage constraint, and when the caller omits an explicit limit it is derived from `livePriceE6` — the unauthenticated WS feed, then a REST `last_price` fallback, then an on-chain seed. Sanitisation was an ABSOLUTE band only: reject <= 0, reject > $1,000,000. Nothing tied it to the oracle the trade actually settles against. The consequence is worth stating plainly, because it is not "a wrong number": the user sets 0.5% slippage and gets 0.5% around a number someone else may have chosen. A feed biased high widens the band an adversarial matcher or LP can fill inside, and the "worst fill price" on the confirm screen is only as trustworthy as the feed. The protection stays on screen and stops meaning anything. `assertFeedAgreesWithChain` now requires the feed to sit within 200 bps of the on-chain price before it may set a limit. PLAYGROUND.md documents the intended gap — the UI ticks Pyth, trades settle at the AuthMark, ~0.1% apart — so the bound is twenty times the honest divergence and no real market touches it. REFUSES rather than clamps, deliberately. Clamping would hand the user a limit derived from a different price than the one the UI quoted them, so the confirm screen would stop matching the transaction — its own trust problem. A 2% disagreement between feed and chain means something is wrong; the honest response is to stop and say so. No-ops when the on-chain price cannot be read. Failing closed there would take the whole app down on an RPC hiccup for a defence-in-depth guard. PLACEMENT MATTERS, and I got it wrong first. An earlier draft ran the check next to the limit derivation, which is before the oracle-mode and inline-push guards. That made "inline oracle push was removed on-chain in beta.29" surface as a price-disagreement message — a worse diagnosis of the same misconfiguration, and it broke two existing tests that assert on the specific error. The check now runs AFTER those guards, so a primary error still wins. ITEMS 2 AND 3 — already done, verified rather than assumed item 2 SECURITY.md no longer claims `WS_AUTH_REQUIRED` defaults to false; it documents the environment-dependent default (required under NODE_ENV=production, optional otherwise) and points at the implementing file. priceStore.ts carries a #2525 note recording the correction. item 3 `assertCanonicalMatcher` exists and IS called, inside resolveV17TradeAccounts. The legacy v12 branch deliberately does not call it, with the reasoning in place: v12's matcher invariants are not client-verifiable and no current market takes that path. I left that decision alone rather than second-guessing it. ALSO: corrected a comment that #2533 makes false. The outbound HMAC in oracle-keeper/register said the keeper "verifies x-shared-secret, NOT this HMAC, so this binding is currently INERT". percolator-keeper#447 makes the keeper verify it, so the binding is live. TEST FIXTURES: two suites had a feed at $1.50 against an on-chain $1.00 — a 50% divergence no market shows. Both are about portfolio selection and oracle-mode detection, not price, so the fixtures are aligned rather than the guard loosened for them. In useTrade.test.ts the ON-CHAIN value was raised to match the feed, because the slippage assertions in that file are written against a 1_500_000 mark. VERIFIED: 320 files, 3159 passed, 0 failed; `npx tsc --noEmit` clean. 10 new tests covering both directions of the bound, the boundary, the no-op paths, and the pinned constant. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NgoNgagkvw7i5SSRC3FJ8D
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds a 2% feed-to-chain price check for automatically derived trade limits. It validates boundary and invalid-price cases, updates affected fixtures, and documents the keeper registration HMAC behavior. ChangesFeed-to-chain price validation
Keeper signing documentation
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Derived trade limits gain a feed-to-chain price bound, but a fractional over-threshold price deviation can still be accepted and keeper-registration documentation describes conflicting signing formats. These are bounded issues that should be corrected before relying on the documented safety behavior. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant useTrade
participant resolveMarketPriceE6
participant assertFeedAgreesWithChain
participant computeLimitPriceE6
useTrade->>resolveMarketPriceE6: Resolve on-chain reference price
useTrade->>assertFeedAgreesWithChain: Validate live feed against chain price
assertFeedAgreesWithChain-->>useTrade: Return or throw SlippageError
useTrade->>computeLimitPriceE6: Derive limit from validated mark
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In `@app/app/api/oracle-keeper/register/route.ts`:
- Around line 138-144: Update the HMAC documentation preceding the registration
binding to describe the actual signed string format used by the registration
flow: timestamp, HTTP method, path, and raw body joined with newline characters.
Remove the stale timestamp-and-body-only format so the comments consistently
match the live verification contract.
In `@app/lib/slippage.ts`:
- Line 140: Update the deviation calculation in the slippage validation flow to
round fractional basis-point values up before comparing against the 200 bps
limit, so any deviation above the threshold is rejected rather than truncated
below it. Add a rejection test covering feedE6 102_000_001n with onChainE6
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| // #2533: the keeper now VERIFIES this HMAC (percolator-keeper#447, | ||
| // src/lib/register-auth.ts), so this binding is live rather than | ||
| // aspirational. The keeper computes the same signed string — | ||
| // [timestamp, METHOD, path, rawBody].join("\n") — and still accepts | ||
| // x-shared-secret for operators. Keep the method/path below in lockstep | ||
| // with that module: a mismatch fails closed, but it fails closed at | ||
| // market-creation time, which is how #2533 hid for as long as it did. |
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Update the preceding HMAC comment to match the bound format.
Line 134 still documents HMAC-SHA256(REGISTER_SECRET, "<timestamp>.<body>"), while Lines 138-144 document [timestamp, METHOD, path, rawBody].join("\n"). Keep one signing contract in this block. Otherwise, a future caller may follow the stale comment and receive a fail-closed registration failure.
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In `@app/app/api/oracle-keeper/register/route.ts` around lines 138 - 144, Update
the HMAC documentation preceding the registration binding to describe the actual
signed string format used by the registration flow: timestamp, HTTP method,
path, and raw body joined with newline characters. Remove the stale
timestamp-and-body-only format so the comments consistently match the live
verification contract.
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| if (onChainE6 === null || onChainE6 <= 0n || feedE6 <= 0n) return; | ||
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| const diff = feedE6 > onChainE6 ? feedE6 - onChainE6 : onChainE6 - feedE6; | ||
| const deviationBps = (diff * 10_000n) / onChainE6; |
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Other (CWE-682)
Reachability: External · Exploitability: Moderate
Reject fractional deviations above 200 bps.
Truncating division accepts values such as feedE6: 102_000_001n against onChainE6: 100_000_000n. Round up before comparison and add this boundary case as a rejection test.
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In `@app/lib/slippage.ts` at line 140, Update the deviation calculation in the
slippage validation flow to round fractional basis-point values up before
comparing against the 200 bps limit, so any deviation above the threshold is
rejected rather than truncated below it. Add a rejection test covering feedE6
102_000_001n with onChainE6 100_000_000n.
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Decision was do all three. Two turned out already done — verified rather than assumed — so this is item 1, plus a correction that percolator-keeper#447 makes necessary.
Item 1: the slippage limit was only as honest as the feed
limit_price_e6is the binding on-chain slippage constraint. When the caller omits an explicit limit it's derived fromlivePriceE6— the unauthenticated WS feed, then a RESTlast_pricefallback, then an on-chain seed. Sanitisation was an absolute band only: reject<= 0, reject> $1,000,000. Nothing tied it to the oracle the trade settles against.The consequence isn't "a wrong number", it's worse: the user sets 0.5% slippage and gets 0.5% around a number someone else may have chosen. A feed biased high widens the band an adversarial matcher or LP can fill inside, and the "worst fill price" on the confirm screen is only as trustworthy as the feed. The protection stays visible and stops meaning anything.
assertFeedAgreesWithChainnow requires the feed within 200 bps of the on-chain price. PLAYGROUND.md documents the intended gap — UI ticks Pyth, trades settle at AuthMark, ~0.1% apart — so the bound is 20× the honest divergence and no real market touches it.Refuses rather than clamps, deliberately. Clamping would hand the user a limit derived from a different price than the UI quoted, so the confirm screen would stop matching the transaction — its own trust problem. A 2% feed/chain disagreement means something is wrong; the honest response is to stop and say so.
No-ops when the on-chain price can't be read. Failing closed there would take the app down on an RPC hiccup, for a defence-in-depth guard.
Placement matters, and I got it wrong first
An earlier draft ran the check next to the limit derivation — before the oracle-mode and inline-push guards. That made "inline oracle push was removed on-chain in beta.29" surface as a price-disagreement message: a worse diagnosis of the same misconfiguration, and it broke two tests that assert the specific error. The check now runs after those guards, so a primary error still wins.
Items 2 and 3 were already done
SECURITY.mdno longer claimsWS_AUTH_REQUIREDdefaults to false; it documents the environment-dependent default and names the implementing file.priceStore.tscarries a [Low] Frontend hardening: off-chain-derived slippage limit, WS unauthenticated-by-default, matcher not in program allowlist #2525 note recording the correction.assertCanonicalMatcherexists and is called, insideresolveV17TradeAccounts. The legacy v12 branch deliberately doesn't call it, with the reasoning already in place: v12's matcher invariants aren't client-verifiable and no current market takes that path. I left that decision alone rather than second-guessing it.Also
Corrected a comment #2533 makes false: the outbound HMAC said the keeper "verifies x-shared-secret, NOT this HMAC, so this binding is currently INERT". percolator-keeper#447 makes the keeper verify it.
Test fixtures
Two suites had a feed at $1.50 against an on-chain $1.00 — a 50% divergence no market shows. Both are about portfolio selection and oracle-mode detection, not price, so the fixtures are aligned rather than the guard loosened for them. In
useTrade.test.tsthe on-chain value was raised to match the feed, because that file's slippage assertions are written against a 1_500_000 mark.Verified
320 files, 3159 passed, 0 failed ·
npx tsc --noEmitclean · 10 new tests covering both directions of the bound, the boundary, the no-op paths, and the pinned constant.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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