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CRITICALCVE-2026-34099Published Modified CNA VulnCheck

CVE-2026-34099: Guardian Language-System Unauthenticated SQL Injection via id Parameter in job_info.php

Guardian language-system passes the id GET parameter directly into an unsanitized SQL query in job_info.php (line 16): SELECT * FROM jobs where id = '\".$_GET['id'].\"'. No authentication is required. An unauthenticated attacker can perform error-based SQL injection to extract the database version, current user, schema names, and table contents.

Metrics

CVSS v4.0
9.3
Severity
CRITICAL
Fixed in
Affected Products
1

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HarborGuard Analysis

Synopsis

This is an unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability in Guardian language-system, a PHP-based job listing application. The job_info.php script passes the id GET parameter directly into a raw SQL query with no sanitization and no login required, meaning any attacker with network access to the server can exploit it immediately. Successful exploitation gives the attacker full read and write access to the underlying database, including the ability to dump all stored records. No fix version has been published; HarborGuard tracks the advisory and will make a patched-image rebuild available the moment upstream ships a fix.

HarborGuard Coverage

Detection

Detection of CVE-2026-34099 is available across every HarborGuard environment: the CVE is ingested from upstream advisory feeds within minutes of publication and matched against all customer images, including custom-built images that bundle Guardian language-system. Any image containing the affected commit range is flagged automatically in CI pipelines and registry scans.

Available
Triage

HarborGuard scores this finding at CVSS 9.3 (Critical) using the published v4.0 vector and surfaces it at the top of the affected workload's findings queue. Per-environment compliance policy weighting is applied before the alert is routed to the appropriate team inbox inside each customer organization, ensuring the right engineers see it without manual triage.

Available
Patch

Because no upstream fix has been published, HarborGuard re-checks the advisory on every ingest cycle and will make a patched-image rebuild available automatically the moment the maintainer releases a corrected version. For customers with auto-remediation enabled, that rebuild will trigger a regression test run and open a PR against affected workloads without requiring manual intervention.

Pending upstream

Exploit Conditions

  • Network reachabilityRequired

    The attacker must be able to reach the job_info.php endpoint over the network; any internet-exposed or internally routable deployment is within scope.

  • AuthenticationNot required

    No account, session token, or credential of any kind is needed to reach the vulnerable parameter.

  • Victim interactionNot required

    The attacker sends a crafted HTTP GET request directly to the server; no user action or social engineering is involved.

  • Attack complexityDetail

    Exploitation is reliable and condition-free: the injection point is consistently reachable and requires no special timing, memory layout knowledge, or environmental preconditions.

Blast Radius

  • Reads all rows in every database table, including stored job listings, user records, credentials, and any other data the application database holds.
  • Reads the current database user identity, schema names, and version information, giving the attacker a precise map of the database for further exploitation.
  • Modifies or deletes persisted database rows, enabling tampering with job records or destruction of stored data.
  • Crashes or degrades the database service through malformed queries, causing availability loss for the application.

How HarborGuard Handles This

Available on HarborGuard: CVE-2026-34099 is matched against all images containing Guardian language-system at or below commit e42c395ec4b03fe62973a669c9209a673838b8a4, with findings surfaced in the registry scan and CI pipeline results for each affected environment. Because no upstream patch exists today, HarborGuard monitors the advisory on every ingest cycle and will make a patched-image rebuild available automatically once the maintainer publishes a fix. For customers with auto-remediation enabled, the rebuilt image will be tested and a PR opened against affected workloads without delay. While waiting for a fix, compensating controls worth considering include placing a web application firewall rule in front of job_info.php to block or sanitize the id parameter, applying strict network policy to limit which services can reach the application, and egress-filtering the database host so that exfiltration paths are narrowed even if the injection succeeds.

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Affected packages
  • guardian / language-system
    ≤ e42c395ec4b03fe62973a669c9209a673838b8a4
CVSS Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N