Mooncake transfer engine before 0.3.13 Unauthenticated Arbitrary Memory Read/Write via TCP Transport
Published Oct 1, 2026
9.3
CRITICALCVSS 4.0
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.
Affected products
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- Version 0StatusaffectedConstraints<0.3.13
- Version
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
| Vendor | Product | Default status | Versions | ||||||
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| Kvcache-AI | Mooncake | unaffected |
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Remediation
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Metrics
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
1 other source (NVD) ▾
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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References (6)
- https://github.com/kvcache-ai/Mooncake product
- https://github.com/kvcache-ai/Mooncake/blob/6041a609a8c3af35e778f70db344f145c2914980/mooncake-transfer-engine/src/transport/tcp_transport/tcp_transport.cpp#L209 technical-description
- https://github.com/kvcache-ai/Mooncake/commit/a2933849417259e562fc9cbad63c618d464dfb2d patch
- https://github.com/kvcache-ai/Mooncake/issues/4441 issue-tracking
- https://github.com/kvcache-ai/Mooncake/releases/tag/v0.3.13 release-notes
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/mooncake-transfer-engine-before-0.3.13-unauthenticated-arbitrary-memory-read-write-via-tcp-transport third-party-advisory
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