HIGH 8.7 NVD
CVE-2026-103761
Mooncake transfer engine through 0.3.13.post1 contains a memory exhaustion vulnerability in TransferMetadata::receivePeerNotify that allows unauthenticated atta
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.
References
- https://github.com/kvcache-ai/Mooncake
- https://github.com/kvcache-ai/Mooncake/blob/719735896c86b56fabec6cf3e825fb2ea640597a/moonc
- https://github.com/kvcache-ai/Mooncake/issues/4445
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/mooncake-transfer-engine-through-0.3.13-post1-memory-
This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.7 was published on 2026-10-01 via NVD.
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