CVE-2026-40563

published 2026-05-04

CVE-2026-40563: Description: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') vulnerability in Apache Atlas Apache Atlas exposes a DSL search endpoint that accepts…

high 8.1 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR L UI N S U C H I H A N

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

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
apache	atlas	>= 0.8 < 2.5.0	2.5.0
apache_software_foundation	apache_atlas	0.8 – 2.4.0	—

CWE-94