The description above is MITRE’s definition of CWE-653 in CWE 4.20, a class-level weakness.
Common consequences MITRE lists
- Access Control: Gain Privileges or Assume Identity; Bypass Protection Mechanism
Guides on this site
Sandbox model-generated code and computer-use agents
Run the code an agent writes, and agents that drive a browser or desktop, inside a boundary built for hostile code: a disposable runtime with no secrets and no default network, hard resource limits, and a person in front of every side effect.
Case study: ingress-nginx CVE-2025-1974 and the exposed admission webhook (2025)
How an admission webhook open to the whole Pod network made ingress-nginx's configuration-injection bugs a 9.8 cluster-takeover risk in 2025, and what its 2026 retirement means.
Practice
- Run model-generated Python in a locked-down container · Local project
References
This page is generated from MITRE’s CWE 4.20 catalogue (released 30 April 2026) and lists every guide, fix card and lab here that cites CWE-653.
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