Highlights
Auth Bypass: 2 prior fixes. Scrutinize any change in this area.
raft.go: most-fixed (2 issues). Treat as high-risk during review.
1 high-severity fix in this history; regressions here are high-impact.
Recurring patterns
The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.
Auth Bypass: Decommissioned or non-voting nodes can participate in Raft elections, potentially disrupting cluster consensus and causing denial of service if cluster membership verification is bypassed during vote request processing.
Auth Bypass: Removed cluster nodes can transition to the Candidate state and trigger disruptive leader elections upon heartbeat timeouts if they do not verify their configuration status prior to state transition.