Command Injection Affecting glances package, versions [,4.5.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

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EPSS
0.24% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-GLANCES-15692496
  • published19 Mar 2026
  • disclosed18 Mar 2026
  • creditrestriction

Introduced: 18 Mar 2026

CVE-2026-32608  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-78  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Glances to version 4.5.2 or higher.

Overview

Glances is an A cross-platform curses-based monitoring tool

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection via the secure_popen function. An attacker can execute arbitrary commands by supplying specially crafted process names or container names containing shell metacharacters, which are improperly handled during command template rendering and execution.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1