CVE-2009-4073

medium

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.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12355

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/23/internet_explorer_file_disclosure_bug/

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508010/100/0/threaded

http://securethoughts.com/2009/11/millions-of-pdf-invisibly-embedded-with-your-internal-disk-paths/

http://secunia.com/advisories/37362

http://osvdb.org/60504

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-11-24

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N