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Mooncake transfer engine through 0.3.13.post1 Denial of Service via P2P Handshake Daemon Response Write

Priority HIGH 69CWE-400Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
High
Attack requirements
Present
Impact type
Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · None · High
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-400.

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00506 43rd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
Poc
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
kvcache-aiMooncakeup to 0.3.13.post1—No fix listedCNA
  • Mooncake Vendorkvcache-ai Affected up to 0.3.13.post1 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-103760
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-mmqv-rpx9-mqhx

References

  • TI-2026-68428 Missing authentication in Mooncake Store REST service CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
  • TI-2026-65760 Mooncake transfer engine before 0.3.13 Unauthenticated Arbitrary Memory Read/Write via TCP Transport CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
  • TI-2026-21201 KTransformers Unsafe Deserialization RCE via balance_serve CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
  • TI-2026-65761 Mooncake through 0.3.13.post1 Missing Authentication in HTTP Metadata Server CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2026-68429 Mooncake Store lets unauthenticated attackers delete any object CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2026-67384 Mooncake before 0.3.12 Out-of-Bounds Read via P2P Handshake readString CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
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Sources