CVE-2026-103761

Mooncake transfer engine through 0.3.13.post1 contains a memory exhaustion vulnerability in TransferMetadata::receivePeerNotify that allows unauthenticated attackers to grow process memory without limit. Attackers can repeatedly send notify frames up to 1 MB to the handshake RPC port, filling the uncapped notifys vector until the out-of-memory killer terminates the engine.

  • Published Oct 1, 2026
  • CVSS 8.7 high
  • 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS)

Affected software

CVE-2026-103761 at the National Vulnerability Database