CVE-2026-103760
Mooncake transfer engine through 0.3.13.post1 contains a denial of service vulnerability that…
- Risk score
- 42/100
- CVSS
- 5.9 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.4%
- Published
- 1 Oct 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- Mooncake transfer engine through 0.3.13.post1 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to block the handshake daemon by never reading replies. Attackers can send a Metadata request to the handshake RPC port and stall SocketHandShakePlugin's single listener thread in write…
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 5.9 medium
References
- https://github.com/kvcache-ai/Mooncake
- https://github.com/kvcache-ai/Mooncake/blob/719735896c86b56fabec6cf3e825fb2ea640597a/mooncake-transfer-engine/src/transfer_metadata_plugin.cpp#L730-L803
- https://github.com/kvcache-ai/Mooncake/issues/4443
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/mooncake-transfer-engine-through-0.3.13-post1-denial-of-service-via-p2p-handshake-daemon-response-write
- https://github.com/kvcache-ai/Mooncake/issues/4443
Original description
Mooncake transfer engine through 0.3.13.post1 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to block the handshake daemon by never reading replies. Attackers can send a Metadata request to the handshake RPC port and stall SocketHandShakePlugin's single listener thread in writeFully(), breaking all subsequent handshakes, metadata fetches, notify and probe requests.
Last activity 1 Oct 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.