Vulnerability Details 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 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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.0
EPSS Ranking 9.1%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.1
References
Products affected by CVE-2026-40563
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:atlas:0.8
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:atlas:0.8.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:atlas:0.8.2
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:atlas:0.8.3
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:atlas:0.8.4
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:atlas:1.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:atlas:1.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:atlas:1.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:atlas:2.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:atlas:2.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:atlas:2.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:atlas:2.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:atlas:2.4.0