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Jailbreak

Güvenlik kısıtlarını aşma (Jailbreak)

D5 · Security, privacy, governance and intellectual property

In language-model security, a jailbreak is an attempt to bypass safeguards so a model produces otherwise restricted behavior.

Review status: 2026-12-05

Technical explanation

The target is a safety restriction; a successful bypass is evaluated against the system’s intended restrictions.

Conceptual boundaries

Usage overlaps with prompt injection; OWASP treats jailbreaking as a form of it. This is not device operating-system jailbreaking.

Provider-neutral example

Illustrative: an authorized evaluator checks whether a test assistant maintains a defined safety boundary.

Limitations

Results depend on the tested model and safeguards; a successful test does not establish a universal bypass.

Related concepts

Atomic claims and evidence

  1. 1.1OWASP LLM01:2025 Prompt Injection
    Source
    OWASP LLM01:2025 Prompt Injection
    Source role
    Authoritative source
    Exact locator
    Opening definition: relationship between prompt injection and jailbreaking; Prevention and Mitigation Strategies
    Supported claim
    OWASP describes jailbreaking as bypassing safety protocols; Zou and colleagues study circumventing alignment safeguards.
    Last verification
    Review due
    Scope limitation
    This is a conceptual security definition, not an attack procedure or assurance about current products.
    1.2Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language Models
    Source
    Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language Models
    Source role
    Authoritative source
    Exact locator
    Abstract: circumventing alignment measures and objectionable generation
    Supported claim
    OWASP describes jailbreaking as bypassing safety protocols; Zou and colleagues study circumventing alignment safeguards.
    Last verification
    Review due
    Scope limitation
    This is a conceptual security definition, not an attack procedure or assurance about current products.