Yara rule and some python scripts for detection and sanitization of Acropalypse (CVE-2023-21036) affected PNG images

March 23, 2023

One of our researchers Octavio Gianatiempo came up with a YARA to detect and sanitize vulnerable images of Acropalypse in scale. We also added a sanitization script to remove extra information from PNG files.

Check all the information in our GitHub

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