CVE-2025-46556: MantisBT Vulnerable to Denial-of-Service (DoS) via Excessive Note Length

medium Affects mantisbt/mantisbt. Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28; published 2025-11-03; advisory modified 2025-11-04.

MantisBT Vulnerable to Denial-of-Service (DoS) via Excessive Note Length

Package: mantisbt/mantisbt Composer
Affected versions: <2.27.2
Fixed in: 2.27.2
Severity: medium CVSS 6.5
Exploitation: not on CISA KEV · EPSS 0% (35.3th percentile)
Published: 2025-11-03
Source: osv.dev

References

CWE-770

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