CVE-2023-6736: GitLab

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 11.3 before 16.7.6, all versions starting from 16.8 before 16.8.3, all versions starting from 16.9 before 16.9.1. It was possible for an attacker to cause a client-side denial of service using malicious crafted content in the CODEOWNERS file.

Affected products

• GitLab GitLab: from 11.3.0, before 16.7.6 (fixed in 16.7.6); from 16.8.0, before 16.8.3 (fixed in 16.8.3); version 16.9.0 only

Published 2024-02-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.