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.
CVE-2026-104433
Score 7.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-10-03. A secondary CVSS source baseline 7.5; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
An upstream fix is merged but not yet released — mitigate (WAF / firewall / segmentation) until the release ships, then apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 7.5HIGHhigh confidence
- EG Risk
- 38EG Risk 38/100CISA SSVC
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity75% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability30% × 15%CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Track or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).Action: An upstream fix is merged but not yet in a tagged release. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high until it ships, then apply the release. - EPSS PROB
- 0.4%
- EPSS %ILE
- 28th
- KEV
- Not listed
CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
An upstream fix is merged but not yet in a tagged release. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high until it ships, then apply the release.
Exploitation none (no KEV listing, exploit record or EPSS ≥ 50%) · Automatable unknown (not published for this CVE) · Technical impact partial (CVSS below 9.0). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table
Published
October 2, 2026
Last Modified
October 3, 2026
Advisory Details (4)
Auto-updated Oct 2, 2026Mooncake before 0.3.12 Out-of-Bounds Read via P2P Handshake readString | Advisories | VulnCheck
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/mooncake-before-0.3.12-out-of-bounds-read-via-p2p-handshake-readstringGitHub - kvcache-ai/Mooncake: Mooncake is the serving platform for Kimi, a leading LLM service provided by Moonshot AI. · GitHub
https://github.com/kvcache-ai/Mooncakecommit c142b4059025 (kvcache-ai/Mooncake)
Fix landed in kvcache-ai/Mooncake commit c142b4059025 — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/kvcache-ai/Mooncake/commit/c142b40590259360196d8e504b2193382529e7b4[Bug]: Zero-length handshake message causes out-of-bounds read and SIGSEGV in Mooncake transfer engine · Issue #4452 · kvcache-ai/Mooncake · GitHub
https://github.com/kvcache-ai/Mooncake/issues/4452Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-104433(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 9× in last 7d / 9× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-10-04 09:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-10-03 22:32 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-03 22:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-10-03 14:25 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-10-03 11:38 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-03 11:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-10-03 00:19 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-02 23:32 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-02 23:30 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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