CVE-2009-4073

N/A Unknown

Published: November 24, 2009 Modified: April 23, 2026

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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://osvdb.org/60504

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/37362

Source: cve@mitre.org

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://osvdb.org/60504