GoBGP confederation validation panics on empty AS_PATH attribute

Found through variant analysis based on CVE-2026-41643 Summary GoBGP accepts a zero-length ASPATH during UPDATE decoding and later panics while validating that attribute for a confederation eBGP peer. The vulnerable path is in the BGP UPDATE validator: a malformed UPDATE that should be rejected a...

Improper Validation of Array Index

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Validation of Array Index in the validation process for BGP UPDATE messages containing an empty ASPATH attribute. An attacker can cause a panic and terminate the peer session by sending a malformed UPDATE with a zero-length...