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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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-04-26 | Published 2026-05-07 | Updated 2026-05-07 | Assigner GitHub_M




HIGH: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Problem types

CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

Product status

= 4.4.0
affected

References

github.com/.../gobgp/security/advisories/GHSA-p3w2-64xm-833j exploit

github.com/.../gobgp/security/advisories/GHSA-p3w2-64xm-833j

github.com/osrg/gobgp/releases/tag/v4.5.0

cve.org (CVE-2026-42285)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-42285)

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