Glances is an open-source system cross-platform monitoring tool. Prior to 4.5.5, glances/outdated.py uses pickle.load() to read a version-check cache file stored at a predictable, world-accessible path (~/.cache/glances/glances-version.db or $XDG_CACHE_HOME/glances/glances-version.db). No integrity check, signature verification, or format validation is performed before deserialization. An attacker with write access to that path — through any of several realistic local or container-level scenarios — can plant a malicious pickle file and achieve arbitrary code execution as the OS user running Glances the next time it starts with version checking enabled (the default). This vulnerability is fixed in 4.5.5.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Glances is an open-source system cross-platform monitoring tool. Prior to 4.5.5, glances/outdated.py uses     pickle.load() to read a version-check cache file stored at a predictable, world-accessible path     (~/.cache/glances/glances-version.db or $XDG_CACHE_HOME/glances/glances-version.db). No integrity check,     signature verification, or format validation is performed before deserialization. An attacker with write     access to that path  through any of several realistic local or container-level scenarios  can plant a     malicious pickle file and achieve arbitrary code execution as the OS user running Glances the next time it     starts with version checking enabled (the default). This vulnerability is fixed in 4.5.5. (CVE-2026-46607)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - Glances is an open-source system cross-platform monitoring tool. Prior to 4.5.5, glances/outdated.py uses
    pickle.load() to read a version-check cache file stored at a predictable, world-accessible path
    (~/.cache/glances/glances-version.db or $XDG_CACHE_HOME/glances/glances-version.db). No integrity check,
    signature verification, or format validation is performed before deserialization. An attacker with write
    access to that path — through any of several realistic local or container-level scenarios — can plant a
    malicious pickle file and achieve arbitrary code execution as the OS user running Glances the next time it
    starts with version checking enabled (the default). This vulnerability is fixed in 4.5.5. (CVE-2026-46607)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
323805	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-46607	Nessus	Misc.	high
443785	SCA: security update for glances (GHSA-9837-48hr-q32j)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	high
443785	SCA: security update for glances (GHSA-9837-48hr-q32j)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2026-46607

high

Tenable Plugins

high

high

high