CVE-2026-103764
Description
Mooncake transfer engine before 0.3.13 contains an untrusted pointer dereference in ServerSession::readHeader that allows unauthenticated attackers to read and write arbitrary process memory via the TCP transport data port. Attackers can send a crafted SessionHeader with arbitrary addr and size values using READ or WRITE opcodes to disclose KV cache contents, prompts and secrets or corrupt memory toward code execution.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
Propose a mitigation on Community Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- https://github.com/kvcache-ai/Mooncake
- https://github.com/kvcache-ai/Mooncake/blob/6041a609a8c3af35e778f70db344f145c2914980/mooncake-transfer-engine/src/transport/tcp_transport/tcp_transport.cpp#L209
- https://github.com/kvcache-ai/Mooncake/commit/a2933849417259e562fc9cbad63c618d464dfb2d
- https://github.com/kvcache-ai/Mooncake/issues/4441
- https://github.com/kvcache-ai/Mooncake/releases/tag/v0.3.13
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/mooncake-transfer-engine-before-0.3.13-unauthenticated-arbitrary-memory-read-write-via-tcp-transport
CWEs
CWE-822
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.