CVE-2026-40563
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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.
Severity
HIGH
CVSS score
8.1
(v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Modified
Source identifier
Published
2026-05-04 16:16:02.283000
Last modified
2026-10-26 19:10:00.163000
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"value": "Description:\nImproper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') vulnerability in Apache Atlas\nApache 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\n\n\n\n\nAffect Version:\nThis issue affects Apache Atlas: from 0.8 through 2.4.0.\n\n\n\nFor the affect version >= 2.0, vulnerability is only when Atlas is deployed with below non-default configuration.\n\n\natlas.dsl.executor.traversal=false\n\n\n\nMitigation:\nUsers are recommended to upgrade to version 2.5.0, which fixes the issue."
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