CVE-2023-2576: GitLab

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 13.7 before 15.11.10, all versions starting from 16.0 before 16.0.6, all versions starting from 16.1 before 16.1.1. This allowed a developer to remove the CODEOWNERS rules and merge to a protected branch.

Affected products

• GitLab GitLab: from 13.7.0, before 15.11.10 (fixed in 15.11.10); from 16.0.0, before 16.0.6 (fixed in 16.0.6); from 16.1.0, before 16.1.1 (fixed in 16.1.1)

Published 2023-07-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.