- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 0.90%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 40% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
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.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Show the exploits2
Exploit-DB1 entry
- glances 4.5.2 - command injection (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 52559webapps, multiplepublished 13 May 2026Not verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/security/advisories/GHSA-qhj7-v7h7-q4c7 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMexploit
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
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- 10 days later
· 10 days later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.90% · top 40% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIGlancesGHSA-qhj7-v7h7-q4c7 (opens in a new tab)
References
References3
- https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/security/advisories/GHSA-qhj7-v7h7-q4c7 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMexploit
- https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/commit/358d76a225fc21a9f95d2c4d7e46fafe64a644c6 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/releases/tag/v4.5.3 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-18256 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-qhj7-v7h7-q4c7 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2026-33641)Record last updated .