Information Exposure Affecting glances package, versions [,4.5.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
1.55% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-GLANCES-15692499
  • published19 Mar 2026
  • disclosed18 Mar 2026
  • creditrestriction

Introduced: 18 Mar 2026

CVE-2026-32596  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (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 Information Exposure via the web server which runs without authentication by default when started with glances -w. An attacker can access sensitive system information, including process command-lines that may contain credentials, by sending network requests to the exposed REST API without authentication.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1