CVE-2026-104433 PUBLISHED

Mooncake before 0.3.12 Out-of-Bounds Read via P2P Handshake readString

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 02.10.2026 Published: 02.10.2026 Updated: 02.10.2026

Mooncake transfer engine before 0.3.12 contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the readString function of include/common.h that allows unauthenticated attackers to crash the service by sending a zero-length handshake frame. Attackers can connect to the handshake port listening on all interfaces and send an eight-byte frame to terminate the hosting process, such as an SGLang inference server.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS: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 Score: 8.7

Product Status

Vendor kvcache-ai
Product Mooncake
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 0.3.12 (excl.)
  • Version 0.3.12 is unaffected

Credits

  • Mingkai Yu finder
  • Xiangjun Sun finder
  • Jiajia Liu finder

References

Problem Types

  • Out-of-bounds Read CWE