A serious privacy vulnerability known as ‘acropalypse’ has also been discovered in the Windows Snipping Tool, enabling people to partially restore content that was photoshopped out of an image.
Security researchers David Buchanan and Simon Aarons discovered last week that a bug in Google Pixel’s Markup Tool caused the original image data to be retained even when it was edited or cropped out. This flaw poses a significant privacy risk because it may be possible to partially recover the original photo if a user shares a picture, such as a credit card with a redacted number or revealing photos with the face removed.
To demonstrate the bug, the researchers created an online acropalypse screenshot recovery tool that attempted to recover edited images created on Google Pixel.
The Windows 11 Snipping Tool was also affected
Today, Chris Blume, a software engineer, confirmed that the ‘acropalypse’ privacy flaw also affects the Windows 11 Snipping Tool. Instead of truncating any unused data when opening a file in the Windows 11 Snipping Tool and overwriting an existing file, it leaves the unused data behind, allowing it to be partially recovered.
Will Dormann, a vulnerability expert, also confirmed
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