Thomas Göttgens a7fde715c6 PhoneAPI: gate local admin on the connection, not the wire from (#11033) ...

* PhoneAPI: gate local admin on the connection, not the wire from

The lockdown admin check in handleToRadioPacket only ran when p.from == 0. from is
a client-supplied wire field, and MeshService::handleToRadio rewrites it to 0 before
AdminModule sees the packet. A client could therefore set from != 0 to skip the
!getAdminAuthorized() drop, then have the packet normalized back to a local-admin
identity and executed - unauthorized admin from an unauthorized connection.

Every packet in handleToRadioPacket already comes from the local connection, so
locality is a property of the connection, not of from. Move the decision into
classifyLocalAdminPacket(), which ignores from and keys only on the admin variant and
the connection's authorization: lockdown_auth is delivered inline, any other admin
from an unauthorized connection is dropped, authorized admin passes through.

The classifier is compiled unconditionally and unit-tested; the guarded caller (built
only in the nRF52 lockdown config) calls it. Test: an unauthorized connection's
ADMIN_APP packet with from != 0 is classified DropUnauthorized.

* PhoneAPI: wipe the encoded lockdown passphrase, shorten comments

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Co-authored-by: Ben Meadors <benmmeadors@gmail.com>

2026-07-17 05:21:32 -05:00

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test_main.cpp

PhoneAPI: gate local admin on the connection, not the wire from (#11033)

2026-07-17 05:21:32 -05:00