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

- Severity: CVSS 8.2 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-10-01 · Updated: 2026-10-02

## Affected

- kvcache-ai Mooncake: through 0.3.13.post1

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on kvcache-ai Mooncake, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/kvcache-ai/Mooncake/issues/4443
- https://github.com/kvcache-ai/Mooncake/blob/719735896c86b56fabec6cf3e825fb2ea640597a/mooncake-transfer-engine/src/transfer_metadata_plugin.cpp#L730-L803
- https://github.com/kvcache-ai/Mooncake
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/mooncake-transfer-engine-through-0.3.13-post1-denial-of-service-via-p2p-handshake-daemon-response-write

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