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CVE-2026-40563

31
FAUCET Score

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.

First published: May 4, 2026Last modified: May 6, 2026

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 0.8, < 2.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:atlas:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.1HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.46%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
37.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0046 is in the 26th percentile among its peer group of 17,822 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.atlas:apache-atlasFixed in: 2.5.0
apachevendor investigatingvia vendor_rss
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-35xx-9xrg-gwhfhigh

Apache Atlas has a Code Injection Vulnerability

May 4, 2026
apacheapache:www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg11030.htmlLOW

CVE-2026-40563: Apache Atlas: Script injection allows access to unintended data

May 3, 2026

References

openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2026/05/03/9
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.apache.org / thread/vd0oggmqxl2k1skm0z2f9p0plx7jhmfl
Mailing ListVendor Advisory