CVE-2023-6386

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

A denial of service vulnerability was identified in GitLab CE/EE, affecting all versions from 15.11 prior to 16.6.7, 16.7 prior to 16.7.5 and 16.8 prior to 16.8.2 which allows an attacker to spike the GitLab instance resource usage resulting in service degradation.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-770

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
GitLab	GitLab	>= 15.11, < 16.6.7; >= 16.7, < 16.7.5; >= 16.8, < 16.8.2

References

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/433147Broken Link
https://hackerone.com/reports/2261581Permissions Required

Timeline

Published: Feb 5, 2025
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Analyzed

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