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CVE-2026-103760: Mooncake transfer engine through 0.3.13.post1 Denial of Service via P2P Handshake Daemon Response Write

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-10-01 · updated 2026-10-02
• Weakness: CWE-400

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.

Affected products

• kvcache-ai Mooncake: through 0.3.13.post1

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

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