{
 "public_id": "AIR-2025-0074",
 "incident_id": "2025-08-windows-recall-sensitive-filter-failure",
 "date_disclosed": "2025-08-01",
 "date_occurred": "2025-08",
 "title": "Windows Recall's \"filter sensitive information\" screening failed in testing, leaving passwords, SSNs and card numbers in its local screenshot index",
 "class": "responsible_disclosure",
 "attack_surface": "memory_store",
 "initial_vector": "none_autonomous_action",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "continuous_screen_capture",
  "ocr_indexing",
  "semantic_retrieval"
 ],
 "target_product": "Windows Recall on Copilot+ PCs",
 "target_vendor": "Microsoft",
 "autonomy_level": "assistant",
 "impact_realized": false,
 "impact_type": [
  "privacy_violation",
  "credential_exposure"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "Copilot+ PC users with Recall enabled; a local, searchable index of everything shown on screen",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [
   "ASI03"
  ],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "mitigation_ineffective",
   "ambient_capture",
   "local_secret_store",
   "preview_disclaimer",
   "attractive_target"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "built-in sensitive-information filter",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": "none at disclosure; Microsoft classified Recall as preview and said improvements were in progress",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/01/microsoft_recall_captures_credit_card_info/",
  "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1176"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "But a *The Register* test shows that it still fails in many cases, creating a potential treasure trove for thieves.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "impact_realized false — this is a tested control failure, not a breach. It earns a place because Recall is the purest form of the agent-memory problem: to be useful the assistant must retain everything it saw, the only thing standing between that archive and an attacker is a heuristic filter, and the filter does not hold. Redesigned after the 2024 backlash (Kevin Beaumont's original findings) and still failing in 2025. AI Incident Database incident 1176.",
 "risk_category": "privacy",
 "risk_secondary": [],
 "risk_subcategory": "Unclassified",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [],
 "ai_entity": "generative",
 "agency": "agent_acted",
 "agency_debatable": true,
 "agency_reason": "Recall captured, OCR'd and indexed real passwords and card numbers",
 "vector_family": "none_autonomous",
 "vector_detail": "none_autonomous_action",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "unknown"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [
   1176
  ],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "ASI03",
 "agent_framework": "unknown",
 "model_provider": "microsoft",
 "model_name": "",
 "detection_mechanism": "unknown",
 "tool_access": "unknown",
 "financial_loss_band": "unknown",
 "eai_category": "credential_theft",
 "eai_domain": "access_control_and_permissions",
 "eai_secondary": [
  "sensitive_data_exposure"
 ],
 "eai_reason": "impact rule: credential_theft",
 "asi_curated": [],
 "asi_scope": "in_scope",
 "asi_provenance": "rule",
 "asi_reason": "ASI03 (eai_category=credential_theft)",
 "submitted_by": "EAI Internal"
}