CVE-2009-4073

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score
26.7%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 4% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Published: November 24, 2009 (6015 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

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.

CWE

CWE-200

Affected Products

microsoft internet explorer

References

🔗 osvdb.org 🔗 secunia.com 🔗 securethoughts.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 www.theregister.co.uk