{"id":"GHSA-35xx-9xrg-gwhf","summary":"Apache Atlas has a Code Injection Vulnerability","details":"### Description:\nImproper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') vulnerability in Apache Atlas.\n\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### Affected Version:\nThis issue affects Apache Atlas: from 0.8-incubating through 2.4.0.\n\n\nFor affected versions \u003e= 2.0.0, the vulnerability is only exploitable when Atlas is deployed with below non-default configuration.\n\n\n`atlas.dsl.executor.traversal=false`\n\n\n### Mitigation:\nUsers are recommended to upgrade to version 2.5.0, which fixes the issue.","aliases":["CVE-2026-40563"],"modified":"2026-05-08T18:26:40.163375Z","published":"2026-05-04T18:30:29Z","database_specific":{"github_reviewed_at":"2026-05-08T17:46:27Z","nvd_published_at":"2026-05-04T16:16:02Z","cwe_ids":["CWE-94"],"severity":"HIGH","github_reviewed":true},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-40563"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/apache/atlas"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread/vd0oggmqxl2k1skm0z2f9p0plx7jhmfl"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/03/9"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"org.apache.atlas:apache-atlas","ecosystem":"Maven","purl":"pkg:maven/org.apache.atlas/apache-atlas"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0.8"},{"fixed":"2.5.0"}]}],"versions":["0.8-incubating","0.8.1","0.8.2","0.8.3","0.8.4","1.0.0","1.0.0-alpha","1.1.0","1.2.0","2.0.0","2.1.0","2.2.0","2.3.0","2.4.0"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/05/GHSA-35xx-9xrg-gwhf/GHSA-35xx-9xrg-gwhf.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N"}]}