CVE-2026-40563
HIGH7.1EPSS 0.02%Apache Atlas has a Code Injection Vulnerability
Published: 5/4/2026Modified: 5/8/2026
Also known as:GHSA-35xx-9xrg-gwhf
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. ### Affected Version: This issue affects Apache Atlas: from 0.8-incubating through 2.4.0. For affected versions >= 2.0.0, the vulnerability is only exploitable 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 packages (1)
- Maven/org.apache.atlas:apache-atlas>= 0.8, < 2.5.0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N |