CVE-2023-34416

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 113, Firefox ESR 102.11, and Thunderbird 102.12. 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 ESR < 102.12, Firefox < 114, and Thunderbird < 102.12.

Published: 2023-06-19 Last update: 2026-06-17 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2023-34416 is rated Moderate Risk (59.4/100): CVSS Critical severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.93%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2023-34416

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.26% 0.93% +0.67%
2 2026-01-15 0.24% 0.26% +0.02%
3 2025-11-21 0.24%

Full EPSS history (17 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2023-34416

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
9.8 3.1 CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:H)
Serious risk that confidential data gets exposed in a big way.
Integrity (I:H)
They could widely tamper with or forge data—trust in the data is badly hurt.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
3.9 5.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2023-34416

OS Trackers for CVE-2023-34416

vendor priority summary link
alpine CVE-2023-34416: 3 source package rows (firefox, firefox-esr, thunderbird); 126 state rows across 6 repos (3.18-community, 3.19-community, 3.20-community, 3.21-community, 3.22-community, edge-community); fixed 8, open 118. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-34416
debian not yet assigned CVE-2023-34416 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 3 source packages (firefox, firefox-esr, thunderbird), 11 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 11. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-34416
gentoo high CVE-2023-34416: 2 GLSA(s) (202312-03, 202401-10), 4 atom(s) (mail-client/thunderbird, mail-client/thunderbird-bin, www-client/firefox, www-client/firefox-bin); latest impact high. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2023-34416
redhat high https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-34416
suse high CVE-2023-34416 severity important: SUSE including 42 source package names (MozillaFirefox, MozillaFirefox-102.12.0-112.162.1, …), 200 product×package rows across 67 product lines (Container suse/kiosk/firefox-esr, Image SLES12-SP5-SAP-Azure-LI-BYOS-Production, … (67 product lines)): Fixed 197, Known Not Affected 3. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-34416/
ubuntu medium CVE-2023-34416 medium priority: Ubuntu including 8 source packages (firefox, mozjs102, …), 80 status rows across 10 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 41, ignored 19, not-affected 9, released 9, needs-triage 2. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-34416

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2023-34416

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
mozilla firefox < 114.0 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla firefox_esr < 102.12 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla thunderbird < 102.12 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2023-34416

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