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CVE-2026-103760NVD
Vulnerability Summary
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.
CVSS v4.0 Base Metrics — Score 8.2 (HIGH)
Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityHigh
Attack RequirementsPresent
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
Confidentiality (Vulnerable System)None
Integrity (Vulnerable System)None
Availability (Vulnerable System)High
Confidentiality (Subsequent System)None
Integrity (Subsequent System)None
Availability (Subsequent System)None
CVSS v3.1 Base Metrics — Score 5.9 (MEDIUM)
Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityHigh
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityNone
AvailabilityHigh
Affected & Patched Versions
- kvcache-ai Mooncake <= 0.3.13.post1
- kvcache-ai Mooncake 0.3.13.post1
External References
- https://github.com/kvcache-ai/Mooncake/issues/4443
- https://github.com/kvcache-ai/Mooncake/blob/719735896c86b56fabec6cf3e825fb2ea640597a/mooncake-transfer-engine/src/transfer_metadata_plugin.cpp#L730-L803
- https://github.com/kvcache-ai/Mooncake
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/mooncake-transfer-engine-through-0.3.13-post1-denial-of-service-via-p2p-handshake-daemon-response-write