CVE-2026-103761

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.

CVSS 4.0

8.7CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS 3.1

7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS

0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 39% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-770

Published

2026-10-01

Modified

2026-10-06

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

• 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

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