CVE-2026-40563

Summary

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 Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-94: CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/03/9

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical Impact: total

References

• https://lists.apache.org/thread/vd0oggmqxl2k1skm0z2f9p0plx7jhmfl

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