CVE-2026-40563HIGH 8.1EPSS p36.6%
CVE-2026-40563CVE-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.
Scoring
| CVSS 3.1 | 8.1 (HIGH) |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| EPSS | 0.46% probability of exploitation · percentile 36.6% · 2026-06-19T12:03:05Z |
| Published | 2026-05-04 |
| Last modified | 2026-05-06 |
Underlying weaknesses· 1
References
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| Type | Target | Confidence | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')cwe-94 | 0% | live |
Related by meaning· 6
Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.