# CVE-2026-41642: GoBGP: Remote Denial of Service (Panic) via Malformed Well-known Path Attribute

- Also known as: GO-2026-5198, GHSA-7235-89M6-F4PX
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.4.0
- Published: 2026-05-07 · Updated: 2026-05-07

## Affected

- osrg gobgp: 4.3.0
- github.com/osrg/gobgp/v4 (Go): from 4.3.0, fixed in 4.4.0
- github.com/osrg/gobgp/v4 (Go): from 4.3.0, fixed in 4.4.0

## Description

GoBGP is an open source Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) implementation in the Go Programming Language. In version 4.3.0, a remote Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability exists in GoBGP due to a nil pointer dereference. When a malformed BGP UPDATE message contains an unrecognized Path Attribute marked as "Well-known," the daemon fails to interrupt the message handling flow. This results in an illegal memory access and a full process crash (panic). This issue has been patched in version 4.4.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on osrg gobgp, github.com/osrg/gobgp/v4, upgrade to a fixed version (4.4.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/osrg/gobgp/security/advisories/GHSA-7235-89m6-f4px
- https://github.com/osrg/gobgp/releases/tag/v4.4.0

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