# CVE-2026-34400: alerta-server has potential SQL Injection vulnerability in Query String Syntax (q=) API

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-2341, GHSA-8PRR-286P-4W7J
- Severity: CVSS 6.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 9.1.0
- Published: 2026-03-31 · Updated: 2026-04-03

## Affected

- alerta: fixed in 9.1.0
- alerta-server (PyPI): fixed in 9.1.0

## Description

Alerta is a monitoring tool. Prior to version 9.1.0, the Query string search API (q=) was vulnerable to SQL injection via the Postgres query parser, which built WHERE clauses by interpolating user-supplied search terms directly into SQL strings via f-strings. This issue has been patched in version 9.1.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on alerta, alerta-server, upgrade to a fixed version (9.1.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/alerta/alerta/security/advisories/GHSA-8prr-286p-4w7j
- https://github.com/alerta/alerta/pull/2040
- https://github.com/alerta/alerta/pull/712
- https://github.com/alerta/alerta/commit/aeba85a37a09e5769a7a2da56481aa979ff99a00
- https://github.com/alerta/alerta/commit/fdd52cd1abad8d02d1dfb8ecdcdbb43b6af3b883
- https://github.com/alerta/alerta/releases/tag/v9.1.0

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