CVE-2023-5870

MEDIUMNVD 4.44.4
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

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

This medium-severity CVE scores 4.4 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 2.6% (85th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). GitHub Security Advisory CVSS 2.2 is lower than this score; a lower GitHub score revises it only when its advisory is newer than the CVE record's last change, and this advisory (published 2023-12-10) is not newer than that change (2026-06-17), so it does not.

Triggered by: Headline CVSS from NVD CVSS v3
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3

Also known asEUVD-2023-58144 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-5gp7-j4r7-g66f (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

4.4EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 2.6%CVSS: 4.4Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

A flaw was found in PostgreSQL involving the pg_cancel_backend role that signals background workers, including the logical replication launcher, autovacuum workers, and the autovacuum launcher. Successful exploitation requires a non-core extension with a less-resilient background worker and would affect that specific background worker only. This issue may allow a remote high privileged user to launch a denial of service (DoS) attack.

CVSS v3
4.4
EG Score
4.4MEDIUMmedium confidence
EG Risk
21
EG Risk 21/100

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)
Severity44% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 4.4 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation2.6% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at every mission impact level.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (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.
EPSS PROB
2.6%
EPSS %ILE
85th
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 (4.4): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 4.4 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
4.4 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v3 · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
EG Likelihood
2.6% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-25). 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 every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade 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 every mission impact level.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (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)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (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

December 10, 2023

Last Modified

June 17, 2026

References (27)

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Patch Availability(24)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntupostgresql-server-dev-9.5 (9.5.25-0ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm6) @ xenial2026-10-25ubuntu
ubuntupostgresql-server-dev-15 (15.5-0ubuntu0.23.04.1) @ lunar2026-10-25ubuntu
ubuntupostgresql-server-dev-10 (10.23-0ubuntu0.18.04.2+esm1) @ bionic2026-10-25ubuntu
redhatadvanced-cluster-security/rhacs-scanner-db-slim-rhel8:4.1.6-62024-01-22redhat
redhatadvanced-cluster-security/rhacs-scanner-db-slim-rhel8:4.2.4-72024-01-22redhat
redhatadvanced-cluster-security/rhacs-scanner-db-slim-rhel8:3.74.8-92024-01-18redhat
redhatpostgresql:15-8080020231113134015.63b345852023-12-20redhat
redhatpostgresql:15-9020020231115020618.rhel92023-12-20redhat
redhatpostgresql:15-8090020231114113548.a75119d52023-12-20redhat
redhatpostgresql:15-9030020231120082734.rhel92023-12-13redhat
redhatrh-postgresql13-postgresql-0:13.13-1.el72023-12-13redhat
redhatpostgresql-0:13.13-1.el9_32023-12-13redhat
redhatrh-postgresql12-postgresql-0:12.17-1.el72023-12-13redhat
redhatpostgresql:12-8090020231128173330.a75119d52023-12-11redhat
redhatpostgresql:12-8040020231127153301.522a0ee42023-12-07redhat
redhatpostgresql:13-8040020231127154806.522a0ee42023-12-07redhat
redhatpostgresql:12-8060020231128165328.ad008a3a2023-12-06redhat
redhatpostgresql:12-8020020231128165246.4cda2c842023-12-06redhat
redhatpostgresql:12-8080020231128165335.63b345852023-12-05redhat
redhatpostgresql-0:13.13-1.el9_22023-11-30redhat
redhatpostgresql:13-8060020231114115246.ad008a3a2023-11-29redhat
redhatpostgresql:13-8090020231114113712.a75119d52023-11-29redhat
redhatpostgresql:13-8080020231114105206.63b345852023-11-29redhat
redhatpostgresql-0:13.13-1.el9_02023-11-28redhat

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

(15 across 11 ecosystems)
Alpine:v3.17(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
postgresql14—
  • every version up to 14.10-r0: fixed in 14.10-r0
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postgresql15—
  • every version up to 15.5-r0: fixed in 15.5-r0
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Alpine:v3.18(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
postgresql14—
  • every version up to 14.10-r0: fixed in 14.10-r0
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postgresql15—
  • every version up to 15.5-r0: fixed in 15.5-r0
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Alpine:v3.19(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
postgresql15—
  • every version up to 15.5-r0: fixed in 15.5-r0
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postgresql16—
  • every version up to 16.1-r0: fixed in 16.1-r0
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Alpine:v3.20(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
postgresql15—
  • every version up to 15.5-r0: fixed in 15.5-r0
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postgresql16—
  • every version up to 16.1-r0: fixed in 16.1-r0
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Alpine:v3.15(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
postgresql14—
  • every version up to 14.10-r0: fixed in 14.10-r0
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Alpine:v3.16(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
postgresql14—
  • every version up to 14.10-r0: fixed in 14.10-r0
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Alpine:v3.21(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
postgresql16—
  • every version up to 16.1-r0: fixed in 16.1-r0
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Alpine:v3.22(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
postgresql16—
  • every version up to 16.1-r0: fixed in 16.1-r0
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Debian:10(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
postgresql-1111.10-0+deb10u1 ... 11.9-0+deb10u1 (22 versions)
  • every version up to 11.22-0+deb10u1: fixed in 11.22-0+deb10u1
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Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
postgresql-1313.10-0+deb11u1 ... 13.9-0+deb11u1 (12 versions)
  • every version up to 13.13-0+deb11u1: fixed in 13.13-0+deb11u1
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Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
postgresql-1515.3-0+deb12u1 ... 15.4-3 (6 versions)
  • every version up to 15.5-0+deb12u1: fixed in 15.5-0+deb12u1
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Weakness Classification(1)

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

Additional Vendor Advisories

(17)

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 6× in last 7d / 37× 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 93 of 202 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. 7 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 109 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

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  11. 2026-10-25 09:24 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-10-25 09:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5gp7-j4r7-g66f · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 2.2
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2023-5870?
CVE-2023-5870 is a medium-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on December 10, 2023. A flaw was found in PostgreSQL involving the pg_cancel_backend role that signals background workers, including the logical replication launcher, autovacuum workers, and the autovacuum launcher. Successful exploitation requires a non-core extension with a less-resilient background worker and would…
When was CVE-2023-5870 made public?
CVE-2023-5870 was made public on November 9, 2023: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, Red Hat, Inc., gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on December 10, 2023. 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-2023-5870 actively exploited?
CVE-2023-5870 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (85th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2023-5870?
CVE-2023-5870 has a CVSS v3 base score of 4.4 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2023-5870?
A fix for CVE-2023-5870 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2023-5870 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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