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Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative for GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS and Windows operating systems.

Python Latest v4.5.4 · 1mo ago Security brief →

Features

  • Real-time system monitoring of CPU, memory, disk, network, processes, and more
  • Supports container monitoring for Docker, LXC and other container engines
  • Provides web UI, terminal UI, API (XML‑RPC, RESTful), and raw stdout output in CSV/JSON formats

Recent releases

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v4.5.4 Security relevant
Security fixes
  • SSRF in IP Plugin via public_api leading to credential leakage (CVE-2026-35587)
  • Cross-Origin Information Disclosure via unauthenticated REST API /api/4 (CVE-2026-34839)
  • CQL injection prevention in Cassandra plugin (CVE-2026-35588)
Notable features
  • Rockchip MPP hardware encoder/decoder monitoring plugin
  • Single-core Rockchip NPU load parsing support
  • Fixed LXC memory percentage display issues
Full changelog

Bug corrected:

  • Cannot set warning/critical temperature for a specific sensor #3525
  • Memory percentage and used displayed as negative numbers #3358
  • Incorrect Docker container count via Homeassistant Integration #3433
  • Fix LXD filter excluding containers on standalone hosts #3529

Enhancements:

  • Add Rockchip MPP plugin for hardware encoder/decoder monitoring #3514
  • Clamp memory used/percent to non-negative values for LXC containers #3505
  • Support single-core Rockchip NPU load parsing and improve device naming #3499

Security patches:

  • SSRF in Glances IP Plugin via public_api leads to credential leakage - Correct CVE-2026-35587
  • Cross-Origin Information Disclosure via Unauthenticated REST API (/api/4) - Correct CVE-2026-34839
  • fix(cassandra): validate keyspace/table/replication_factor to prevent CQL injection - Correct CVE-2026-35588 #3520

Continious integration and documentation:

  • pycache file is put in wheel #3516
  • Remove dead code #3507

Thanks to all the contributors for this version: csvke, Christian Rishøj,
duriantaco, Julio César Suástegui, Paul and morimori-dev.

v4.5.3 Security relevant
Security fixes
  • CVE-2026-33641: Command Injection via Dynamic Configuration Values
  • CVE-2026-33533: Cross-Origin System Information Disclosure via XML-RPC Server CORS Wildcard
Notable features
  • LXC/LXD container support
  • ClickHouse export functionality
v4.5.2 Security relevant
Breaking changes
  • Host header validation enforced; requests not matching localhost/127.0.0.1 rejected unless allowed_hosts configured
  • CORS policy restrictive; wildcard removed, must explicitly configure cors_origins
  • Sensitive fields redacted on unauthenticated API responses; must authenticate to access password hashes and SNMP credentials
Security fixes
  • CVE-2026-32610: Default CORS Configuration Allows Cross-Origin Credential Theft
  • CVE-2026-32609: Incomplete Secrets Redaction in /api/v4/args Endpoint
  • CVE-2026-32632: REST/WebUI DNS Rebinding Vulnerability
v4.5.1 Bug fix
Notable features
  • Intel GPU monitoring support
  • Docker container health alerting
  • Per-plugin min/max/mean statistics
v4.5.0 New feature
Security fixes
  • Fixed Jinja2 vulnerability (B701)
  • Fixed timeout vulnerability (B113)
Notable features
  • ZFS and NPU filesystem monitoring with NVMe support
  • DuckDB export for database integration
  • API token authentication for REST API security

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