GHSA-35xx-9xrg-gwhf

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-35xx-9xrg-gwhf

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/05/GHSA-35xx-9xrg-gwhf/GHSA-35xx-9xrg-gwhf.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-35xx-9xrg-gwhf

Aliases

CVE-2026-40563

Published

2026-05-04T18:30:29Z

Modified

2026-05-08T18:11:25Z

Severity

7.1 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator

Summary

Apache Atlas has a Code Injection Vulnerability

Details

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.

Database specific

{
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-94"
    ],
    "github_reviewed":  true,
    "github_reviewed_at":  "2026-05-08T17:46:27Z",
    "nvd_published_at":  "2026-05-04T16:16:02Z",
    "severity":  "HIGH"
}

References

Affected packages

Maven / org.apache.atlas:apache-atlas

Package

Name: org.apache.atlas:apache-atlas; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:maven/org.apache.atlas/apache-atlas

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0.8

Fixed

2.5.0

Affected versions

0.*

0.8-incubating

0.8.1

0.8.2

0.8.3

0.8.4

1.*

1.0.0-alpha

1.0.0

1.1.0

1.2.0

2.*

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"