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
- 9.1 Critical severity
Twig: Protection Mechanism Failure
Twig is a template language for PHP. Prior to 3.27.0, ArrayExpression does not guard dynamic mapping keys that are coerced to strings, allowing PHP to invoke __toString() on a Stringable object used as a mapping key without calling SandboxExtension::ensureToSt
- 9.1 Critical severity
Twig: Protection Mechanism Failure
Twig is a template language for PHP. Prior to 3.27.0, deprecated internal wrappers in src/Resources/core.php do not forward the current sandbox state to CoreExtension::checkArrow(), arraySome(), and arrayEvery(), allowing legacy calls such as twig_array_some()
- 8.1 High severity
Twig: Protection Mechanism Failure
Twig is a template language for PHP. Prior to 3.26.0, {% sandbox %}{% include %} can include a template that was previously loaded outside the sandbox without re-invoking checkSecurity(), allowing the cached template to use tags, filters, and functions that sh
- 9.8 Critical severity
Twig: Protection Mechanism Failure
Twig is a template language for PHP. From 3.9.0 until 3.26.0, template_from_string() compiles an inner template under a synthesized __string_template__<hash> name that can fall outside a SourcePolicyInterface sandbox decision, allowing a sandboxed template tha
- 7.8 High severity
PraisonAI: Protection Mechanism Failure
PraisonAI (pip package praisonaiagents) before 1.6.78 contains an unsafe dynamic module loading vulnerability in AgentFlow._resolve_pydantic_class (src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/workflows/workflows.py). When a workflow step uses a string output_pydantic
- 7.8 High severity
Prisma Access Agent: Protection Mechanism Failure
Multiple protection mechanism failures in the Prisma Access Agent Data Loss Prevention (DLP) component for Windows allow a local user to bypass DLP policy enforcement controls. The Prisma Access Agent on macOS is not affected.
- 9.8 Critical severity
fickling: Protection Mechanism Failure
In Trail of Bits fickling versions up to and including 0.1.11, the UnsafeImportsML analysis pass unconditionally calls AnalysisContext.shorten_code(node) on every import node it inspects, regardless of whether the import is flagged as unsafe. This call registe
- 8.1 High severity
picklescan: Protection Mechanism Failure
picklescan before 0.0.33 fails to detect operator.methodcaller function calls in pickle files, allowing attackers to bypass security checks. Remote attackers can craft malicious pickle payloads using operator.methodcaller that execute arbitrary code when loade
- 7.6 High severity
Universal SSL: Protection Mechanism Failure
Description: To issue and renew TLS certificates on behalf of customers, Cloudflare's Universal SSL feature automatically manages the CAA RRset for the customer's zone. This auto-managed RRset is permissive by design (e.g. 'issue "letsencrypt.org"' without par
- 7.5 High severity
Chrome: Protection Mechanism Failure
Inappropriate implementation in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 150.0.7871.46 allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to engage in specific UI gestures to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)
- 8.3 High severity
Chrome: Incorrect Resource Transfer Between Spheres
Inappropriate implementation in AI in Google Chrome prior to 150.0.7871.47 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)
- 9.6 Critical severity
Inappropriate implementation in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 150.0.7871.47 allowed a…
Inappropriate implementation in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 150.0.7871.47 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)
- 9.6 Critical severity
Chrome: Improper Privilege Management
Insufficient policy enforcement in Sandbox in Google Chrome on Mac prior to 150.0.7871.47 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)
- 9.6 Critical severity
Chrome: Protection Mechanism Failure
Inappropriate implementation in WebAppInstalls in Google Chrome on Mac prior to 150.0.7871.47 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)
- 9.6 Critical severity
Chrome: Protection Mechanism Failure
Insufficient policy enforcement in GPU in Google Chrome prior to 150.0.7871.47 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)
- 9.6 Critical severity
Chrome: Protection Mechanism Failure
Inappropriate implementation in Navigation in Google Chrome prior to 150.0.7871.47 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)
- 8.3 High severity
Chrome: Protection Mechanism Failure
Insufficient policy enforcement in USB in Google Chrome prior to 150.0.7871.47 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
Insufficient policy enforcement in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 150.0.7871.47 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 ANGLE in Google Chrome prior to 150.0.7871.47 allowed a remote attacker to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
- 8.1 High severity
picklescan: Protection Mechanism Failure
picklescan before 0.0.29 fails to detect the built-in Python trace.Trace.runctx function when used in pickle file reduce methods, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code. Remote attackers can craft malicious pickle files with trace.Trace.runctx payloads t
- 8.8 High severity
pnpm: Origin Validation Error
pnpm is a package manager. Prior to 10.34.2 and 11.5.3, the generic peer-suffix normalizer also stripped parenthesized text from git, URL, tarball, file, and other opaque locators. Approval for one source string could therefore authorize a different attacker-c
- 8.6 High severity
warp: Incorrect Behavior Order: Validate Before Canonicalize
Warp is an agentic development environment. From 0.2025.10.08.08.12.stable_00 until 0.2026.05.06.15.42.stable_01, Warp contains a command execution permission-check bypass in the default unsandboxed CLI agent profile. The CLI profile is non-interactive and rel
- 8.5 High severity
Jenkins Script Security Plugin: Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences
Jenkins Script Security Plugin 1402.v94c9ce464861 and earlier does not reject Groovy AST transformation annotations carrying an extensions member, allowing attackers able to run sandboxed Groovy scripts to execute code outside the sandbox if a suitable script
- 8.8 High severity
Jenkins Script Security Plugin: Protection Mechanism Failure
Jenkins Script Security Plugin 1402.v94c9ce464861 and earlier does not intercept the implicit type casts applied to the elements of typed for-each loops in sandboxed Groovy scripts, allowing attackers able to provide such scripts to invoke arbitrary constructo
- 8.6 High severity
traefik: Not Failing Securely
Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. From 3.7.0-ea.1 until 3.7.5, there is a medium severity vulnerability in Traefik's Kubernetes Ingress NGINX provider that causes affected routes to fail open. When an Ingress explicitly enables BasicAuth or D
- 7.6 High severity
open-webui: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
Open WebUI is a self-hosted artificial intelligence platform designed to operate entirely offline. Prior to 0.9.6, Open WebUI patched SVG XSS in user profile images and webhook profile images but forgot to apply the same fix to model profile images. The ModelM
- 8.8 High severity
PickleScan: Protection Mechanism Failure
PickleScan before 0.0.33 fails to include the pty.spawn function in its unsafe globals list, allowing attackers to bypass security checks. Malicious actors can craft pickle payloads using pty.spawn to achieve arbitrary code execution when files are processed b
- 8.3 High severity
Chrome: Protection Mechanism Failure
Inappropriate implementation in WebView in Google Chrome on Android prior to 149.0.7827.155 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Critica
- 8.3 High severity
OpenClaw: Protection Mechanism Failure
OpenClaw before 2026.5.12 contains an argument pattern validation bypass in the exec allowlist that allows attackers to execute disallowed arguments for allowlisted executables on Linux and macOS systems. Attackers can bypass configured argPattern restrictions
- 9.1 Critical severity
Firefox: Protection Mechanism Failure
Mitigation bypass in the DOM: Security component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 152, Firefox ESR 140.12, Thunderbird 152, and Thunderbird 140.12.
- 7.5 High severity
Firefox: Protection Mechanism Failure
Sandbox escape in the Security: Process Sandboxing component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 152, Firefox ESR 140.12, Thunderbird 152, and Thunderbird 140.12.
- 7.5 High severity
Firefox: Protection Mechanism Failure
Sandbox escape in the DOM: Navigation component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 152, Firefox ESR 140.12, Firefox ESR 115.37, Thunderbird 152, and Thunderbird 140.12.
- 7.5 High severity
Firefox: Protection Mechanism Failure
Sandbox escape in the DOM: Workers component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 152, Firefox ESR 140.12, Firefox ESR 115.37, Thunderbird 152, and Thunderbird 140.12.
- 7.8 High severity
360 Total Security: Protection Mechanism Failure
A security flaw has been discovered in Qihoo 360 Total Security 6.0. This vulnerability affects the function RpcStringBindingComposeW of the component Nucleus Engine Monitoring Logic. Performing a manipulation of the argument NetworkAddr results in protection
- 8.6 High severity
vm2: Protection Mechanism Failure
vm2 is an open source vm/sandbox for Node.js. Prior to version 3.11.4, the BaseHandler.set trap in bridge.js (line 1231) ignores the receiver parameter and unconditionally writes to the host target object. Per the Proxy set trap specification, when receiver !=
- 10.0 Critical severity
vm2: Protection Mechanism Failure
vm2 is an open source vm/sandbox for Node.js. Prior to version 3.11.4, NodeVM blocks several dangerous Node.js builtins such as module, worker_threads, cluster, vm, repl, and inspector. However, the denylist misses process and inspector/promises. Both can be u
- 8.6 High severity
vm2: Protection Mechanism Failure
vm2 is an open source vm/sandbox for Node.js. Prior to version 3.11.4, NodeVM supports excluding public network builtins from the wildcard builtin option. With this configuration direct access to http, https, http2, net, dgram, tls, dns, and dns/promises is bl
- 8.7 High severity
vm2: Protection Mechanism Failure
vm2 is an open source vm/sandbox for Node.js. Prior to version 3.11.4, Symbol.for override in setup-sandbox.js only intercepts 2 of 9 dangerous Node.js cross-realm symbols. Combined with the bridge's set/defineProperty/deleteProperty traps having no isDangerou
- 8.3 High severity
Chrome: Protection Mechanism Failure
Inappropriate implementation in Views in Google Chrome on Windows prior to 149.0.7827.115 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: Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
Inappropriate implementation in Headless in Google Chrome prior to 149.0.7827.115 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)