CVE-2023-38283: Openbgpd

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In OpenBGPD before 8.1, incorrect handling of BGP update data (length of path attributes) set by a potentially distant remote actor may cause the system to incorrectly reset a session. This is fixed in OpenBSD 7.3 errata 006.

Affected products

• Openbgpd Openbgpd: before 8.1 (fixed in 8.1)

Published 2023-08-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.