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SCA: security update for glances (GHSA-9837-48hr-q32j)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 443785

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 Prior to 4.5.5, glances/outdated.py uses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)

Solution

Update the glances library and its related packages to version 4.5.5 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9837-48hr-q32j

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 443785

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 6/23/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.9

Percentile: 96.92

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-46607

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/22/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/22/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-46607

cwe: CWE-502