What is CVE-2026-103760?
Mooncake transfer engine through 0.3.13.post1 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to block the handshake daemon by never reading replies. Attackers can send a Metadata request to the handshake RPC port and stall SocketHandShakePlugin's single listener thread in writeFully(), breaking all subsequent handshakes, metadata fetches, notify and probe requests.
The record classifies CVE-2026-103760 under weakness class CWE-400. Its CVSS v3 base vector states that the flaw is reachable remotely over the network, needs no prior authentication, needs no user interaction, and has high impact on availability. 1 affected-product entry is recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 4 days ago.
Severity and exploitation probability
- CVSS v3.1 base score
- 5.9 — MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - CVSS v4.0 base score
- 8.2
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N - EPSS (FIRST)
- 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 31.9% of all scored CVEs
- CISA KEV
- Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
- Threadlinqs priority
- 4.2/10 — a Threadlinqs composite of the CVSS base score, the EPSS percentile and public exploit availability
- Published
- 2026-10-01, last modified 2026-10-02
Is CVE-2026-103760 being exploited?
It currently carries a trending score of 37 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.
Affected products and versions
- kvcache-ai: Mooncake
How to fix CVE-2026-103760
No vendor patch reference has been recorded for CVE-2026-103760 in the tracked sources. Follow the references below for a fix, and treat the products listed above as exposed until the vendor states otherwise.
Threat activity tracking CVE-2026-103760
No threat campaign in the Threadlinqs corpus currently references CVE-2026-103760, in its CVE list or as an indicator. The linkage is recomputed from the live corpus on every daily ingest, so this section fills in as soon as a tracked campaign cites the identifier.
Sources
Enriched from CVE.org, NVD, FIRST EPSS, GitHub Security Advisories. Last verified by Threadlinqs on . This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.