CVE-2023-21036 / acropalypse is absolutely bonkers.

Apparently for 5+ years the cropping / editing tools for screenshots on Google Pixel phones was only overwriting the start of the screenshot PNG file, but not truncating.

All screenshots shared for the past 5+ years might have data recoverable from them. Demo available at acropalypse.app/

Google still hasn't communicated anything on this.

(h/t ItsSimonTime on Musk's site)

@delroth Wow... that's incredible level of bad.

I'm now sitting here wondering if it's really Pixel specific or not... and if other screenshot solutions suffer from a similar problem, or Google did something very silly...

At least it seems like it has been fixed in the 2023 March update.... for future screenshots (presumably)...

@simonlbn "future" indeed, since the 2023 March update isn't available publicly for Pixel 6 / 6 Pro at this point.

Yes, despite the fact that Project Zero dropped 5 remotely exploitable vulns for those devices yesterday.

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