Command Injection Affecting glances package, versions [,4.5.3)
Threat Intelligence
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- published6 Apr 2026
- disclosed2 Apr 2026
- creditMithun M
Introduced: 2 Apr 2026
NewCVE-2026-33641 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Glances to version 4.5.3 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 Config.get_value function during configuration parsing, where substrings enclosed in backticks are executed as system commands without validation or restriction. An attacker can execute arbitrary system commands with the privileges of the process by modifying or influencing configuration files.