CVE-2026-40563

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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-04-14 | Published 2026-05-04 | Updated 2026-05-06 | Assigner apache

Problem types

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

Product status

Credits

Khaled M. Alshammri finder

qx L finder

References

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

lists.apache.org/thread/vd0oggmqxl2k1skm0z2f9p0plx7jhmfl vendor-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2026-40563)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-40563)

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