diff --git a/db/post_migrate/20240101133628_remove_start_date_column_from_vulnerabilities.rb b/db/post_migrate/20240101133628_remove_start_date_column_from_vulnerabilities.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..747ff35377b43279325983e2fb76d597f8a84b14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/db/post_migrate/20240101133628_remove_start_date_column_from_vulnerabilities.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+# frozen_string_literal: true
+
+class RemoveStartDateColumnFromVulnerabilities < Gitlab::Database::Migration[2.2]
+  milestone '16.8'
+
+  enable_lock_retries!
+
+  def up
+    remove_column :vulnerabilities, :start_date
+  end
+
+  def down
+    add_column :vulnerabilities, :start_date, :date
+  end
+end
diff --git a/db/schema_migrations/20240101133628 b/db/schema_migrations/20240101133628
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..129206c5564d7514803409ce135fd86017e6e0d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/db/schema_migrations/20240101133628
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+61b8bed56b1aa5fbce448cc8b90ec863801fbffb0a81f857ce512052f47ba1cb
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/db/structure.sql b/db/structure.sql
index b0bd513e601a28b6e60d8ec87fb5046f92855b12..5a6dad6fb465a3317c199d27751dddfd54708622 100644
--- a/db/structure.sql
+++ b/db/structure.sql
@@ -24904,7 +24904,6 @@ CREATE TABLE vulnerabilities (
     epic_id bigint,
     project_id bigint NOT NULL,
     author_id bigint NOT NULL,
-    start_date date,
     created_at timestamp with time zone NOT NULL,
     updated_at timestamp with time zone NOT NULL,
     title character varying(255) NOT NULL,
diff --git a/ee/spec/models/ee/vulnerability_spec.rb b/ee/spec/models/ee/vulnerability_spec.rb
index 22eced10917ad8c9f5ca9e4b7ea9e195dd64f8f1..fe19b0f9b7da0a9b26768e0a7371e859df43684b 100644
--- a/ee/spec/models/ee/vulnerability_spec.rb
+++ b/ee/spec/models/ee/vulnerability_spec.rb
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
   let_it_be(:vulnerability) { create(:vulnerability, :sast, :confirmed, :low, :with_state_transition, project: project) }
   let_it_be(:finding) { create(:vulnerabilities_finding, vulnerability: vulnerability) }
 
-  it { is_expected.to have_locked_schema('b1278ab481678e3a0962433517923c9a81d451c8e4b1fc85aaa080f5e5924330').reference('https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/349315') }
+  it { is_expected.to have_locked_schema('c44ba975c0533ef0f7e338c8acbf8813427a2a0302180f28243a3853162bb6fa').reference('https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/349315') }
 
   it_behaves_like 'vulnerability and finding shared examples' do
     let(:transformer_method) { :itself }