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 user-supplied query strings. Attacker can alter Gremlin traversal logic within grammar-allowed characters to access unintended data Affect ...

high 7.1 CVSS 3.1
Published: May 4, 2026
Modified: May 5, 2026
Vendor: Apache
Product: Atlas

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.

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