HiddenLayer Bypass of OpenAI Guardrails (Self-Policing LLM)
Date: 2025-10
Affected: OpenAI Guardrails
Attack vector: jailbreak
Category: research
Severity: High

HiddenLayer bypassed OpenAI's Guardrails system: when the same model evaluates safety as generates responses, both can be compromised together to produce harmful output without alerts.


Mitigations:

Architectural layers (MAESTRO):