# CVE-2026-49837: GoBGP: BGP OPEN capability parser may read capability values outside declared CapLen boundaries

- Also known as: GHSA-GJRG-JJR3-56CM, GO-2026-5955
- Severity: CVSS 5.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.6.0
- Published: 2026-09-10 · Updated: 2026-09-15

## Affected

- osrg gobgp: fixed in 4.6.0
- github.com/osrg/gobgp/v4 (Go): fixed in 4.6.0

## Description

GoBGP is an open source Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) implementation in the Go Programming Language. Versions prior to 4.6.0 contain a BGP OPEN capability parsing issue where several concrete capability decoders may parse data from the full remaining capability buffer instead of the slice bounded by the declared capability length, `CapLen`. A malformed BGP OPEN message can cause bytes from a following capability to be interpreted as part of the current capability. The most security-relevant case is the 4-octet AS capability, where a capability with `CapLen == 0` may cause the parser to read bytes from the following capability as the 4-octet AS value. This parsed value may later affect peer AS validation during BGP session establishment. Version 4.6.0 patches the issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on osrg gobgp, github.com/osrg/gobgp/v4, upgrade to a fixed version (4.6.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/osrg/gobgp/security/advisories/GHSA-gjrg-jjr3-56cm
- https://github.com/osrg/gobgp/commit/f02ca397821f6ca182ef4eb492c3cbc459552d7c

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