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    CVE-2026-40563

    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:May 4, 2026
    Last Modified:May 6, 2026
    EPS:May 4, 2026
    EPSS Score:0.00084
    CVSS Score:8.1

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Apache
    Product
    Atlas

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

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