CVE-2009-4073
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 19.6%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-200
- EPSS score
- 19.6% (97th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-4044)
- Published
- November 24, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-4044 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / internet explorer
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
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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