CVE-2026-103761
HIGHCVSS 7.5Description
Mooncake transfer engine through 0.3.13.post1 contains a memory exhaustion vulnerability in TransferMetadata::receivePeerNotify that allows unauthenticated attackers to grow process memory without limit. Attackers can repeatedly send notify frames up to 1 MB to the handshake RPC port, filling the uncapped notifys vector until the out-of-memory killer terminates the engine.
Timeline
Published:October 1st, 2026 11:16 PM
Last modified:October 6th, 2026 3:16 AM
CVSS Scoring
CVSS v3: 7.5 (HIGH)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses (CWE)
References & Reports
Advisories, patches, and third-party reports
- https://github.com/kvcache-ai/Mooncake
- https://github.com/kvcache-ai/Mooncake/blob/719735896c86b56fabec6cf3e825fb2ea640597a/mooncake-transfer-engine/src/transfer_metadata.cpp#L285-L296
- https://github.com/kvcache-ai/Mooncake/issues/4445
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/mooncake-transfer-engine-through-0.3.13-post1-memory-exhaustion-via-unbounded-notify-queue
- https://github.com/kvcache-ai/Mooncake/issues/4445
Source: NIST NVD · Data may lag official sources by up to one minute