There are various kinds of local adjustment which might produce a visual result like this: for example, Tone Curve. Or an extreme saturation boost. I can see from the screenshot that mask Overlay is not turned on, so this is an actual editing change that will persist when you close the Masking panel.
It is possible for editing done to a previously made Mask - on some other image, say - to then get remembered as the starting default editing for all new Masks.
That can only happen though, if the option Reset Sliders Automatically is not checked - as I can see it is not, from the screenshot.
Once that option is checked, each freshly made Mask always starts fully zeroed.
For already-made masks - you can Reset the offending adjustment, or if you can’t tell which adjustment that would be, all of them.