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.
Project Subscriptions
No data.
Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
Github GHSA |
GHSA-qhj7-v7h7-q4c7 | Glances Vulnerable to Command Injection via Dynamic Configuration Values |
Fixes
Solution
No solution given by the vendor.
Workaround
No workaround given by the vendor.
References
History
Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:15:00 +0000
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
|---|---|---|
| Description | 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. | |
| Title | Glances Vulnerable to Command Injection via Dynamic Configuration Values | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-78 | |
| References |
| |
| Metrics |
cvssV3_1
|
Projects
Sign in to view the affected projects.
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-04-02T16:22:08.154Z
Reserved: 2026-03-23T14:24:11.620Z
Link: CVE-2026-33641
No data.
Status : Received
Published: 2026-04-02T15:16:40.040
Modified: 2026-04-02T15:16:40.040
Link: CVE-2026-33641
No data.
OpenCVE Enrichment
No data.
Weaknesses
Github GHSA