Is this vulnerability remotely exploitable?

It can be, if an attacker can influence monitored attributes (such as process or container names) via a remote interface—like deploying containers, starting processes, or mounting filesystems whose names are under their control—and those attributes are included in Glances action templates. In such setups, the attacker does not need direct access to the Glances configuration itself.

What level of access does an attacker need to exploit this issue?

The attacker must be able to control one or more runtime values that are interpolated into action commands (for example, naming a process or container with crafted metacharacters). They also depend on Glances being configured with an action template that uses those fields and is triggered by a reachable monitoring condition.

What is the safest general fix pattern for affected code?

The robust fix pattern is to eliminate custom command-string parsing and instead construct argument arrays directly for each subprocess invocation, treating all templated data as pure arguments rather than command syntax. Multi-step behavior should be modeled explicitly in code (separate subprocess calls, pipelines implemented via APIs) instead of relying on shell-like operators embedded in a single string.

Severity:

HIGH RISK

(7.0)

Command Injection via Templated Alert Actions (CWE-78) in Glances Monitoring

CVE-2026-32608

Published:

Mar 18, 2026

Status:

Analyzed

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Affected Context

Exploit Preconditions

Why This Happens

Potential Impact

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Vulnerability Type

Category:

Command Injection

CWE:

CWE-78

Impact:

Arbitrary Command Execution in the Monitoring Environment

Severity:

HIGH RISK

(7.0)

CVSS Version:

3.1

Vulnerability Type

Category:

Command Injection

CWE:

CWE-78

Impact:

Arbitrary Command Execution in the Monitoring Environment

Severity:

HIGH RISK

(7.0)

CVSS Version:

3.1

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Command Injection via Templated Alert Actions (CWE-78) in Glances Monitoring

Summary

Affected Context

Exploit Preconditions

Why This Happens

Potential Impact

General Mitigation Guidance

How Teams Detect Issues Like This

Frequently Asked Questions

Source

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