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CVE-2009-4073
The printing functionality in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 allows remote attackers to discover a local pathname, and possibly a local…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 19.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 2.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 15 years later
· 15 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 19.6% · top 2.6% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- 20091123 Millions of PDF invisibly embedded with your internal disk paths (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12355 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 60504 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- http://securethoughts.com/2009/11/millions-of-pdf-invisibly-embedded-with-your-internal-disk-paths/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 37362 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/23/internet_explorer_file_disclosure_bug/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2009-4044 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2009-4073)Record last updated .