glances — security advisory
Glances is an open-source system cross-platform monitoring tool. Prior to 4.5.5, the Glances XML-RPC server (glances -s) introduced a configurable CORS origin list in version 4.5.3 as a mitigation for CVE-2026-33533. However, the implementation silently falls back to Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * whenever cors_origins contains more than one entry. An operator who configures an explicit two-entry allowlist (e.g. two internal dashboard origins) intending to restrict browser access instead receives the unrestricted wildcard. A malicious web page served from any origin can issue a CORS simple request to /RPC2 and read the full system monitoring dataset without the victim's knowledge. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.5.5.
- Products
- glances
- Affected versions
- 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, 4.5.7+dfsg-1, 4.5.8+dfsg-1
- Fixed versions
- 4.5.5+dfsg-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-46608
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 13:59 UTC · Revision 2
Source evidence
Glances is an open-source system cross-platform monitoring tool. Prior to 4.5.5, the Glances XML-RPC server (glances -s) introduced a configurable CORS origin list in version 4.5.3 as a mitigation for CVE-2026-33533. However, the implementation silently falls back to Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * whenever cors_origins contains more than one entry. An operator who configures an explicit two-entry allowlist (e.g. two internal dashboard origins) intending to restrict browser access instead receives the unrestricted wildcard. A malicious web page served from any origin can issue a CORS simple request to /RPC2 and read the full system monitoring dataset without the victim's knowledge. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.5.5.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2026-46608
glances
Fixed versions: Not specified
glances
Fixed versions: 4.5.5+dfsg-1
Complete source record
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