Medium severity · published Sep 10, 2026
CVE-2026-49837
GoBGP: BGP OPEN capability parser may read capability values outside declared CapLen boundaries
5.9
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 26% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
GO
gobgp · osrg
< 4.6.0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-49837
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-49837
github.com
https://github.com/osrg/gobgp/commit/f02ca397821f6ca182ef4eb492c3cbc459552d7c
github.com
https://github.com/osrg/gobgp/security/advisories/GHSA-gjrg-jjr3-56cm
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