CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-4073
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-11-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
Description
The printing functionality in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 allows remote attackers to discover a local pathname, and possibly a local username, by reading the dc:title element of a PDF document that was generated from a local web page.
Affected configurations
• microsoft internet explorer 5
• microsoft internet explorer 6
• microsoft internet explorer 7
• microsoft internet explorer 8
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- http://osvdb.org/60504 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37362 secunia.com
- http://securethoughts.com/2009/11/millions-of-pdf-invisibly-embedded-with-your-internal-disk-paths/ securethoughts.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508010/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/23/internet_explorer_file_disclosure_bug/ www.theregister.co.uk
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12355 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://osvdb.org/60504 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37362 secunia.com
- http://securethoughts.com/2009/11/millions-of-pdf-invisibly-embedded-with-your-internal-disk-paths/ securethoughts.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508010/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/23/internet_explorer_file_disclosure_bug/ www.theregister.co.uk
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12355 oval.cisecurity.org