CVE-2009-4073

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 19.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-11-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: 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 products

Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 5, 6, 7, 8

References

http://osvdb.org/60504
http://secunia.com/advisories/37362
http://securethoughts.com/2009/11/millions-of-pdf-invisibly-embedded-with-your-internal-disk-paths/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508010/100/0/threaded
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/23/internet_explorer_file_disclosure_bug/
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12355
http://osvdb.org/60504
http://secunia.com/advisories/37362
http://securethoughts.com/2009/11/millions-of-pdf-invisibly-embedded-with-your-internal-disk-paths/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508010/100/0/threaded
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/23/internet_explorer_file_disclosure_bug/
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12355

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