Cloudanix VulnDB

CVE-2026-33641

High · 7.8

CVSS

7.8

EPSS

0.8%

Published

Apr 2, 2026

CISA due date

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The record

Glances is an open-source system cross-platform monitoring tool. Prior to version 4.5.3, Glances supports dynamic configuration values in which substrings enclosed in backticks are executed as system commands during configuration parsing. This behavior occurs in Config.get_value() and is implemented without validation or restriction of the executed commands. If an attacker can modify or influence configuration files, arbitrary commands will execute automatically with the privileges of the Glances process during startup or configuration reload. In deployments where Glances runs with elevated privileges (e.g., as a system service), this may lead to privilege escalation. This issue has been patched in version 4.5.3.

Affected packages

Ecosystem Package Introduced Fixed
openSUSE:Tumbleweed python-Glances 0 4.5.3-1.1

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