CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-40563
8.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-05-04
- Last modified
- 2026-10-26
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-94
Description
Description:
Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') vulnerability in Apache Atlas
Apache Atlas exposes a DSL search endpoint that accepts user-supplied query strings. Attacker can alter Gremlin traversal logic within grammar-allowed characters to access unintended data
Affect Version:
This issue affects Apache Atlas: from 0.8 through 2.4.0.
For the affect version >= 2.0, vulnerability is only when Atlas is deployed with below non-default configuration.
atlas.dsl.executor.traversal=false
Mitigation:
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.5.0, which fixes the issue.
Affected configurations
• apache atlas (>= 0.8 < 2.5.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness
References
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/vd0oggmqxl2k1skm0z2f9p0plx7jhmfl Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/03/9 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory