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CVE-2009-4073 (GCVE-0-2009-4073)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-11-24 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 06:54
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508010/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://osvdb.org/60504 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://securethoughts.com/2009/11/millions-of-pdf… x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/37362 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/23/internet_… x_refsource_MISC
Date Public
2009-11-23 00:00
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