CVE-2023-5730

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2023-10-25. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 4 sources updated this week

Also known asEUVD-2023-58016 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-hwgx-3qq3-2885 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 1.6%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 118, Firefox ESR 115.3, and Thunderbird 115.3. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 119, Firefox ESR < 115.4, and Thunderbird < 115.4.1.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
60
EG Risk 60/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation1.6% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
1.6%
EPSS %ILE
76th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
1.6% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-31). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

October 25, 2023

Last Modified

June 17, 2026

Advisory Details (8)

Auto-updated Nov 1, 2026
Patch available.
Web pageMentions a patch (unverified)

[SECURITY] [DLA 3632-1] firefox-esr security update

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00037.html
Web page

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 115.4.1 — Mozilla

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-47/
Web page

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 115.4 — Mozilla

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-46/
Web page

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 119 — Mozilla

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-45/
Web page

[SECURITY] [DSA 5538-1] thunderbird security update

https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5538
Web pageMentions a patch (unverified)

[SECURITY] [DLA 3637-1] thunderbird security update

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00042.html
Web page

[SECURITY] [DSA 5535-1] firefox-esr security update

https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5535

Patch Availability(15)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntufirefox-mozsymbols (119.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1) @ focal2026-11-01ubuntu
ubuntuxul-ext-lightning (1:115.4.1+build1-0ubuntu0.23.10.1) @ mantic2026-11-01ubuntu
redhatfirefox-0:115.4.0-1.el8_82023-10-30redhat
redhatfirefox-0:115.4.0-1.el8_12023-10-30redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:115.4.1-1.el8_82023-10-30redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:115.4.1-1.el8_42023-10-30redhat
redhatfirefox-0:115.4.0-1.el8_62023-10-30redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:115.4.1-1.el9_22023-10-30redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:115.4.1-1.el8_62023-10-30redhat
redhatfirefox-0:115.4.0-1.el7_92023-10-30redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:115.4.1-1.el8_12023-10-30redhat
redhatfirefox-0:115.4.0-1.el8_22023-10-30redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:115.4.1-1.el8_22023-10-30redhat
redhatfirefox-0:115.4.0-1.el9_22023-10-30redhat
redhatfirefox-0:115.4.0-1.el9_02023-10-30redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(10 across 5 ecosystems)
Debian:10(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
firefox-esr102.1.0esr-1 ... 91.9.1esr-1~deb9u1 (225 versions)
  • every version up to 115.4.0esr-1~deb10u1: fixed in 115.4.0esr-1~deb10u1
—
thunderbird1:102.0.1-1 ... 1:91.9.0-1~deb9u1 (283 versions)
  • every version up to 1:115.4.1-1~deb10u1: fixed in 1:115.4.1-1~deb10u1
—
Debian:11(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
firefox-esr102.1.0esr-1 ... 91.9.1esr-1~deb9u1 (123 versions)
  • every version up to 115.4.0esr-1~deb11u1: fixed in 115.4.0esr-1~deb11u1
—
thunderbird1:102.0.1-1 ... 1:91.9.0-1~deb9u1 (160 versions)
  • every version up to 1:115.4.1-1~deb11u1: fixed in 1:115.4.1-1~deb11u1
—
Debian:12(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
firefox-esr102.11.0esr-1 ... 115.4.0esr-1~deb11u1 (30 versions)
  • every version up to 115.4.0esr-1~deb12u1: fixed in 115.4.0esr-1~deb12u1
—
thunderbird1:102.11.0-1 ... 1:115.4.1-1~deb11u1 (45 versions)
  • every version up to 1:115.4.1-1~deb12u1: fixed in 1:115.4.1-1~deb12u1
—
Debian:13(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
firefox-esr—
  • every version up to 115.4.0esr-1: fixed in 115.4.0esr-1
—
thunderbird—
  • every version up to 1:115.4.1-1: fixed in 1:115.4.1-1
—
Debian:14(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
firefox-esr—
  • every version up to 115.4.0esr-1: fixed in 115.4.0esr-1
—
thunderbird—
  • every version up to 1:115.4.1-1: fixed in 1:115.4.1-1
—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

All Vendor Advisories

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Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 27× in last 7d / 93× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 98 of 261 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 2 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 163 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-01 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 76th percentile
  2. 2026-11-01 12:29 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-11-01 12:29 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-11-01 12:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hwgx-3qq3-2885 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  5. 2026-10-31 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 76th percentile
  6. 2026-10-31 13:24 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-31 13:24 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-10-31 13:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hwgx-3qq3-2885 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  9. 2026-10-30 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 76th percentile
  10. 2026-10-30 14:19 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-30 14:19 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-10-30 14:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hwgx-3qq3-2885 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  13. 2026-10-29 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 76th percentile
  14. 2026-10-29 15:15 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-29 15:15 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-29 15:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hwgx-3qq3-2885 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  17. 2026-10-28 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 76th percentile
  18. 2026-10-28 16:10 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-10-28 16:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hwgx-3qq3-2885 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  20. 2026-10-27 17:02 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-27 17:02 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-10-27 17:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hwgx-3qq3-2885 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  23. 2026-10-27 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 76th percentile
  24. 2026-10-26 17:56 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-10-26 17:56 UTCVendor advisory
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  1. 2026-10-26 17:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hwgx-3qq3-2885 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  2. 2026-10-26 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 76th percentile
  3. 2026-10-25 18:18 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-10-25 18:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hwgx-3qq3-2885 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  5. 2026-10-25 17:26 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-25 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 76th percentile
  7. 2026-10-24 19:09 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-24 19:09 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-10-24 19:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hwgx-3qq3-2885 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  10. 2026-10-24 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 76th percentile
  11. 2026-10-23 20:02 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-23 20:02 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-10-23 20:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hwgx-3qq3-2885 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  14. 2026-10-23 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 76th percentile
  15. 2026-10-22 20:57 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-22 20:57 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-10-22 20:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hwgx-3qq3-2885 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  18. 2026-10-22 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 76th percentile
  19. 2026-10-21 21:53 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-21 21:53 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-10-21 21:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hwgx-3qq3-2885 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  22. 2026-10-21 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 76th percentile
  23. 2026-10-20 22:11 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-10-20 22:11 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-10-20 22:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hwgx-3qq3-2885 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  26. 2026-10-20 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 75th percentile
  27. 2026-10-19 23:04 UTCEG score recompute
  28. 2026-10-19 23:04 UTCVendor advisory
  29. 2026-10-19 23:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hwgx-3qq3-2885 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  30. 2026-10-19 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 75th percentile
  31. 2026-10-18 22:30 UTCEG score recompute
  32. 2026-10-18 22:30 UTCVendor advisory
  33. 2026-10-18 22:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hwgx-3qq3-2885 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  34. 2026-10-18 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 73rd percentile
  35. 2026-10-18 07:39 UTCEG score recompute
  36. 2026-10-17 23:03 UTCEG score recompute
  37. 2026-10-17 23:03 UTCVendor advisory
  38. 2026-10-17 23:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hwgx-3qq3-2885 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  39. 2026-10-17 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 73rd percentile
  40. 2026-10-16 23:57 UTCEG score recompute
  41. 2026-10-16 23:57 UTCVendor advisory
  42. 2026-10-16 23:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hwgx-3qq3-2885 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  43. 2026-10-16 16:36 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 73rd percentile
  44. 2026-10-15 20:51 UTCEG score recompute
  45. 2026-10-15 20:51 UTCVendor advisory
  46. 2026-10-15 20:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hwgx-3qq3-2885 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  47. 2026-10-15 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 73rd percentile
  48. 2026-10-14 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 73rd percentile
  49. 2026-10-14 14:57 UTCEG score recompute
  50. 2026-10-14 14:57 UTCVendor advisory
  51. 2026-10-14 14:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hwgx-3qq3-2885 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  52. 2026-10-13 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 72nd percentile
  53. 2026-10-13 14:22 UTCEG score recompute
  54. 2026-10-13 14:22 UTCVendor advisory
  55. 2026-10-13 14:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hwgx-3qq3-2885 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  56. 2026-10-12 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 72nd percentile
  57. 2026-10-12 15:15 UTCEG score recompute
  58. 2026-10-12 15:15 UTCVendor advisory
  59. 2026-10-12 15:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hwgx-3qq3-2885 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  60. 2026-10-11 21:36 UTCEG score recompute
  61. 2026-10-11 13:45 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 72nd percentile
  62. 2026-10-10 19:58 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 72nd percentile
  63. 2026-10-09 20:05 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 72nd percentile
  64. 2026-10-08 17:06 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 72nd percentile
  65. 2026-10-07 23:46 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 72nd percentile
  66. 2026-10-06 15:15 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 72nd percentile
  67. 2026-10-05 17:41 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 72nd percentile
  68. 2026-10-03 14:23 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 72nd percentile
  69. 2026-10-01 19:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 72nd percentile
  70. 2026-09-30 16:38 UTCEG score recompute
  71. 2026-09-30 15:01 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 72nd percentile
  72. 2026-09-29 15:17 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 72nd percentile
  73. 2026-09-28 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 72nd percentile

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2023-5730?
CVE-2023-5730 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on October 25, 2023. Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 118, Firefox ESR 115.3, and Thunderbird 115.3. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 119, Firefox ESR <…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2023-5730 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2023-5730 was published on October 25, 2023. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of June 17, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2023-5730 actively exploited?
CVE-2023-5730 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (76th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2023-5730?
CVE-2023-5730 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2023-5730?
A fix for CVE-2023-5730 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

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