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CVE-2025-48561, dubbed "Pixnapping," is an Android local information disclosure vulnerability caused by side-channel leakage from on-screen rendering. According to the provided content, a malicious Android application can reconstruct sensitive screen content pixel by pixel without requiring special permissions or additional execution privileges. The attack reportedly combines Android Intents to invoke target activities, the Android window blur API to induce graphical operations over sensitive rendered content, VSync timing/rendering behavior, and the GPU.zip side channel to infer displayed pixels. The issue affects Android devices tested on versions 13 through 16 and targets data rendered through the Android graphics pipeline, including content from apps such as Google Authenticator, Signal, Gmail, Google Accounts, Venmo, and Google Maps. The vulnerable condition is described as leakage through Android's rendering/compositing path, including SurfaceFlinger-related behavior, rather than a conventional memory corruption flaw.
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A high-severity Android vulnerability that enables a malicious app with no special permissions to reconstruct screen contents pixel by pixel using Android APIs, blur effects, VSync timing, and the GPU.zip side channel, exposing sensitive data such as seed phrases and 2FA codes.
An Android side-channel attack technique dubbed Pixnapping that abuses Android APIs, pixel rendering, blur operations, and the GPU.Zip side channel to steal sensitive on-screen data such as 2FA codes, messages, emails, and app content without requiring abusive permissions.
An Android side-channel attack technique dubbed Pixnapping that abuses Android APIs, pixel rendering, blur operations, and the GPU.Zip side channel to steal sensitive on-screen data such as 2FA codes, messages, emails, and app content without requiring abusive permissions.
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