DEBIAN-CVE-2026-33641

Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-33641
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-33641.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-33641
Upstream
Published
2026-04-02T15:16:40Z
Modified
2026-09-14T17:03:08Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:12 / glances

Package

Name
glances
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/glances?arch=source&distro=bookworm

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*
3.3.1.1+dfsg-1
3.4.0.3+dfsg-1
4.*
4.0.5+dfsg-1
4.1.2.1+dfsg-1
4.2.1+dfsg-1
4.3.0.8+dfsg-1
4.3.1+dfsg-1
4.3.3+dfsg-1
4.5.1+dfsg-1
4.5.2+dfsg-1
4.5.3.2+dfsg-1
4.5.4+dfsg-1
4.5.5+dfsg-1
4.5.6+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-33641.json"

Debian:13 / glances

Package

Name
glances
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/glances?arch=source&distro=trixie

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

4.*
4.3.1+dfsg-1
4.3.3+dfsg-1
4.5.1+dfsg-1
4.5.2+dfsg-1
4.5.3.2+dfsg-1
4.5.4+dfsg-1
4.5.5+dfsg-1
4.5.6+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-33641.json"

Debian:14 / glances

Package

Name
glances
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/glances?arch=source&distro=forky

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.5.3.2+dfsg-1

Affected versions

4.*
4.3.1+dfsg-1
4.3.3+dfsg-1
4.5.1+dfsg-1
4.5.2+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-33641.json"