Of course, they can have counterparty risks. The counterparty is usually unprepared to actually pay up and expects to rollover its debt.
Sometimes that melts down and doesn’t happen:
https://globalnews.ca/news/160176/coventree-executives-faile...
(Scroll down to Canada in 08-09 here):
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset-backed_commercial_pape...