Broke 0.7 Vistas Fixed officially acknowledged Mar 21, 2023 their #21 worst broke on record

The crop tool kept the parts you cropped out

Windows Snipping Tool saved cropped images with the original data recoverable

↳ caused by Snipping Tool acropalypse (CVE-2023-28303)

The market's verdict: +1.5% on MSFT in the week after.

Status: Fixed. Working as intended, eventually.

What actually happened

In March 2023, researchers found that Windows 11's Snipping Tool and Windows 10's Snip & Sketch had the acropalypse flaw: cropping a screenshot did not truncate the file, so anyone who received it could recover the parts you had carefully cut away. Every screenshot redacted before sharing, a medical record here, an address there, was potentially still inside. Microsoft shipped emergency Store updates within the week. The already-shared images, of course, stayed out there forever, cropped on the outside, intact on the inside.

This one is officially acknowledged.

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Emergency Store update shipped within the week

Microsoft has acknowledged this issue; a fix ships in an out-of-band or next cumulative update. Check Windows Release Health before manual workarounds.

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