🛡️ CVE-2026-40563 — atlas

🟠 CVSS 8.1 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-94 NVD
8.1
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Apache Atlas has a Code Injection Vulnerability

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.

Affected Version:

This issue affects Apache Atlas: from 0.8-incubating through 2.4.0.

For affected versions >= 2.0.0, the vulnerability is only exploitable 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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-40563 is classified as CWE-94: Code Injection. Input is incorporated into code that the runtime evaluates, so an attacker can have their own code executed.

Affected software

CVE-2026-40563 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • atlas (from 0.8 up to 2.5.0)
  • org.apache.atlas:apache-atlas (from 0.8 up to 2.5.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 4 May 2026 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

lists.apache.org
www.openwall.com

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.1
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-94
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-05-04
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
atlas 0.8 2.5.0
org.apache.atlas:apache-atlas 0.8 2.5.0

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