CVE-2009-4073

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Summary

CVECVE-2009-4073
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-11-24 17:30:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Problem Types: CWE-200 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
None
Availability
None

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 All All All
Application Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 All All All
Application Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 All All All
Application Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Millions of PDF invisibly embedded with your internal disk paths | SecureThoughts.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securethoughts.com
IE bug leaks private details from 50m PDF files • The Register af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.theregister.co.uk
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
osvdb.org/60504 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
Internet Explorer PDF Export Information Disclosure - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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