CVE-2009-4073: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 19.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 5 only; version 6 only; version 7 only; version 8 only

Published 2009-11-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.