Vulnerability CVE-2009-4073
Published: 2009-11-24   Modified: 2012-02-13

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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
Millions of PDF invisibly embedded with your internal disk paths
Inferno
26.11.2009

Type:

CWE-200

 (Information Exposure)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Microsoft -> IE 

 References:
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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