Protection Mechanism Failure
CWE-693
The product does not use or incorrectly uses a protection mechanism that provides sufficient defense against directed attacks against the product.
We track 444 vulnerabilities of this type. 99% are rated high or critical, and the average CVSS score is 8.5. 14 have been exploited in real attacks.
Latest Protection Mechanism Failure vulnerabilities
- 9.9 Critical severity
vm2: Protection Mechanism Failure
vm2 is an open source vm/sandbox for Node.js. Prior to 3.11.6, handleException() in lib/setup-sandbox.js sanitizes SuppressedError.error, SuppressedError.suppressed, and AggregateError.errors but does not sanitize Error.cause, allowing sandbox code to obtain a
- 9.8 Critical severity
openssl_encrypt: Protection Mechanism Failure
openssl_encrypt versions before 1.4.0 contain a sandbox escape vulnerability in the DangerousPatternVisitor AST analyzer that fails to detect dunder attribute traversal techniques. Attackers can use __class__, __bases__, __subclasses__(), and __globals__ chain
- 9.8 Critical severity
openssl_encrypt: Protection Mechanism Failure
openssl_encrypt versions before 1.4.0 fail to apply sandbox restrictions in the default process isolation mode for plugin execution. Attackers can execute malicious plugins with unrestricted access to the filesystem, network, subprocess execution, and all Pyth
- 8.8 High severity
openssl_encrypt: Protection Mechanism Failure
openssl_encrypt versions before 1.4.0 contain a sandbox bypass vulnerability where the plugin sandbox fails to restrict alternative file access methods like pathlib.Path and io.open. Attackers can import pathlib or io modules to read and write arbitrary files,
- 9.1 Critical severity
scriban: Protection Mechanism Failure
Scriban before 7.0.0 caches TypedObjectAccessor by Type only without considering MemberFilter changes, allowing reused TemplateContext instances to expose members that should be hidden. Attackers can access filtered properties and fields by reusing a TemplateC
- 8.8 High severity
Opensearch: Protection Mechanism Failure
A SQL query validation bypass in the Flint extension query handler in the OpenSearch SQL plugin allows a remote authenticated actor with async query access to execute arbitrary code on Apache Spark workers by sending a crafted SQL query to the direct query end
- 7.7 High severity
cursor: Protection Mechanism Failure
Cursor is a code editor built for programming with AI. Prior to 3.1.2, Cursor IDE for macOS allows an agent running in Auto-Run Sandbox mode to replace a virtual environment's Python executable with a malicious wrapper that the Microsoft Python extension invok
- 7.6 High severity
activepieces: Protection Mechanism Failure
Activepieces is an open source AI workflow automation platform. Prior to 0.80.0, in SANDBOX_CODE_ONLY mode, the engine loads the compiled user module with importFresh(), a wrapper around Node.js require(), before the V8 isolate is applied. Top-level module cod
- 7.8 High severity
Python extension for Visual Studio Code: Protection Mechanism Failure
Inclusion of functionality from untrusted control sphere in Visual Studio Code - Python extension allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature locally.
- 7.3 High severity
Intel(R) Transfer Learning Tool: Protection Mechanism Failure
Protection mechanism failure for some Intel(R) Transfer Learning Tool before version v0.7 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an escalation of privilege. Unprivileged software adversary with an unauthenticated user combined with a low complexity attack
- 10.0 Critical severity
Intel(R) Data Center Attestation Primitives…: Protection Mechanism Failure
Protection mechanism failure for some Intel(R) Data Center Attestation Primitives (Intel(R) DCAP) may allow information disclosure. Unprivileged software adversary with an unauthenticated user combined with a low complexity attack may enable data exposure. Thi
- 8.8 High severity
cms: Protection Mechanism Failure
Craft CMS versions >= 5.0.0-RC1 before 5.10.7 and >= 4.0.0-RC1 before 4.18.3 contain a remote code execution vulnerability in the Twig sandbox mechanism. Because Craft marks the ElementInterface as safe (via the AllowedInSandbox attribute) and the sandbox allo
- 8.8 High severity
Chrome: Protection Mechanism Failure
Inappropriate implementation in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 151.0.7922.109 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
- 8.3 High severity
Chrome: Protection Mechanism Failure
Insufficient policy enforcement in Navigation in Google Chrome prior to 151.0.7922.109 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
- 8.8 High severity
Chrome: Protection Mechanism Failure
Inappropriate implementation in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 151.0.7922.109 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
- 9.4 Critical severity
WSO2 Identity Server: Protection Mechanism Failure
The Conditional Authentication (Adaptive Authentication) script does not correctly enforce the completion of all required authentication steps when a specific multi-step pattern involving certain authenticators is configured. This allows an attacker to bypass
- 7.5 High severity
WSO2 Enterprise Integrator: Protection Mechanism Failure
The account locking mechanism fails to trigger when secondary user stores are inaccessible. The software does not maintain a consistent state for account locking if it cannot reach all configured user stores, allowing an attacker to repeatedly attempt authenti
- 7.2 High severity
electron: Protection Mechanism Failure
Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Prior to 39.8.10, 41.10.3, and 42.0.1, a sandboxed iframe without the allow-popups keyword could still open a new window or trigger setWindowOpenHandler wit
- 7.5 High severity
electron: Protection Mechanism Failure
Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Prior to 39.8.9, 40.9.2, 41.2.2, and 42.0.0-beta.5, apps that expose Promise-returning functions to web content via contextBridge may be vulnerable to a con
- 9.6 Critical severity
Chrome: Protection Mechanism Failure
Inappropriate implementation in Tint in Google Chrome on Mac prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a remote attacker to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)
- 8.8 High severity
Chrome: Protection Mechanism Failure
Insufficient policy enforcement in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to perform privilege escalation via a crafted Chrome Extension. (Chromium security severity: Low)
- 9.6 Critical severity
Chrome: Protection Mechanism Failure
Inappropriate implementation in Crypto in Google Chrome on Mac prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
- 9.6 Critical severity
Chrome: Protection Mechanism Failure
Inappropriate implementation in Network in Google Chrome on Mac prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
- 9.6 Critical severity
Chrome: Protection Mechanism Failure
Inappropriate implementation in MHTML in Google Chrome on Mac prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
- 9.6 Critical severity
Chrome: Protection Mechanism Failure
Inappropriate implementation in ANGLE in Google Chrome on Mac prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a remote attacker to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
- 8.8 High severity
Chrome: Protection Mechanism Failure
Inappropriate implementation in ANGLE in Google Chrome on Android prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a remote attacker to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
- 9.6 Critical severity
Chrome: Protection Mechanism Failure
Inappropriate implementation in ANGLE in Google Chrome on Android prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
- 9.6 Critical severity
Chrome: Protection Mechanism Failure
Inappropriate implementation in Chrome for iOS in Google Chrome on iOS prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a remote attacker to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
- 8.6 High severity
flyto-core: Insufficiently Protected Credentials
Flyto2 Core is an execution kernel for automation and AI-agent workflows. Prior to 2.26.6, the workflow engine variable resolver expands ${env.VAR} for any host environment variable without an allowlist or capability policy check, allowing a workflow parameter
- 7.8 High severity
macOS: Protection Mechanism Failure
A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.7.8, macOS Sonoma 14.8.7, macOS Tahoe 26.6. A user may be able to elevate privileges.
- 8.4 High severity
hulumi: Protection Mechanism Failure
Hulumi is an open-source toolkit that ships secure-by-default cloud and platform infrastructure components for Pulumi. Prior to version 1.4.0, policy packs can be bypassed by a forged Pulumi-URN logical name. This issue has been patched in version 1.4.0.
- 9.9 Critical severity
PraisonAI: Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs
PraisonAI is a multi-agent teams system. Prior to version 4.6.40 of PraisonAI, corresponding to version 1.6.40 of praisonaiagents, `execute_code()` in `praisonaiagents/tools/python_tools.py` (v1.6.37, subprocess sandbox mode) can be fully bypassed using `print
- 9.1 Critical severity
Firefox: Protection Mechanism Failure
Mitigation bypass in the Enterprise Policies component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 153, Firefox ESR 140.13, Thunderbird 153, and Thunderbird 140.13.
- 9.8 Critical severity
Firefox: Protection Mechanism Failure
Mitigation bypass in the DOM: Networking component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 153, Firefox ESR 140.13, Thunderbird 153, and Thunderbird 140.13.
- 9.8 Critical severity
Firefox: Protection Mechanism Failure
Mitigation bypass in the PDF Viewer component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 153, Firefox ESR 140.13, Thunderbird 153, and Thunderbird 140.13.
- 9.8 Critical severity
Firefox: Use After Free
Sandbox escape due to use-after-free in the Disability Access APIs component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 153, Firefox ESR 115.38, Firefox ESR 140.13, Thunderbird 153, and Thunderbird 140.13.
- 7.2 High severity
crowdsec: Protection Mechanism Failure
CrowdSec offers crowdsourced protection against malicious IPs. From 1.5.0 until 1.7.8, pkg/appsec/request.go NewParsedRequestFromRequest allocated a request body buffer from max(r.ContentLength, 0), so HTTP/1.1 requests using Transfer-Encoding: chunked and HTT
- 8.2 High severity
Twig: Protection Mechanism Failure
Twig is a template language for PHP. Prior to 3.27.0, the per-template filter, tag, and function allow-list verdict is computed when a Template instance is constructed and can remain cached after sandbox state changes between renders, allowing a later sandboxe
- 7.5 High severity
Twig: Protection Mechanism Failure
Twig is a template language for PHP. Prior to 3.27.0, the column filter passes the active sandbox state as a boolean but does not forward the current Source to SandboxExtension::checkPropertyAllowed(), so SourcePolicyInterface decisions are lost and a template
- 9.1 Critical severity
Twig: Protection Mechanism Failure
Twig is a template language for PHP. Prior to 3.27.0, the sandbox __toString() checks do not fully cover Traversable values passed to join and replace filters or operands evaluated by the in and not in operators, allowing contained Stringable objects to be coe