CVE-2026-42285
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.18%GoBGP has a panic in AdjRib.Update via malformed BGP Update message (Nil Pointer Dereference)
Published: 5/5/2026Modified: 5/19/2026
Description
GoBGP is an open source Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) implementation in the Go Programming Language. In version 4.4.0, an unauthenticated remote BGP peer can trigger a fatal panic in GoBGP by sending a specially crafted BGP UPDATE message. When the server receives a message with inconsistent attribute lengths, it improperly handles the internal state transition to a "withdraw" action, leading to a nil pointer dereference in the AdjRib.Update function. This causes the entire GoBGP process to crash, resulting in a complete loss of service availability. This issue has been patched in version 4.5.0.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/gobgpfrom 0, < 4.5.0-1
- Go/github.com/osrg/gobgp/v4>= 4.4.0, < 4.5.0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |