CVE-2026-33641
HIGH
MEDIUM
Priority: 0.07
BB Relevance:
41/100
Published: 2026-04-02
Modified: 2026-10-26
First seen: 2026-10-29
Status: active
Attack Surface
Low Complexity
No Interaction
Conf. Impact
Integ. Impact
CVSS Vector Breakdown
AV:
Local
AC:
Low
PR:
Low
UI:
None
S:
Unchanged
C:
High
I:
High
A:
High
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.
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