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SCA: security update for Glances (GHSA-qhj7-v7h7-q4c7)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 440913

Description

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 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.
 (CVE-2026-33641)

Solution

Update the Glances library and its related packages to version 4.5.3 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qhj7-v7h7-q4c7

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 440913

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 4/27/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.6

Percentile: 98.49

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-33641

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/30/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/30/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-33641

cwe: CWE-78