Cropping Bug Exposes Removed Photo Data in Windows 11 and Google Pixels
A flaw in Microsoft's Snipping Tool on Windows 11 and Google Pixel's Markup allows hackers to recover the original photo that's cropped.
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A flaw in Microsoft's Snipping Tool on Windows 11 and Google Pixel's Markup allows hackers to recover the original photo that's cropped.
The patches fix Windows 10 and 11 security flaws that allowed malicious actors to reveal the unedited contents of cropped and publicly shared screenshots.
Microsoft has issued a fix for a security flaw affecting the Snipping Tool in Windows 11 and the Snip & Sketch tool in Windows 10. The flaw could let bad actors revert the changes made to an edited screenshot.
Microsoft Snipping Tool utility has been found to have a vulnerability that means that screenshots that have been cropped can be very easily uncropped, potentially exposing sensitive information.
Snipping Tool for Windows 11 and Snip & Sketch for Windows 10 can allegedly leave in data that you attempted to crop out, similar to a recently discovered vulnerability on Google Pixel phones.