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Test ID: | 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.900897 |
Category: | Windows |
Title: | Microsoft Internet Explorer PDF Information Disclosure Vulnerability - Nov09 |
Summary: | This host is installed with Internet Explorer and is prone to; Information Disclosure vulnerability. |
Description: | Summary: This host is installed with Internet Explorer and is prone to Information Disclosure vulnerability. Vulnerability Insight: The weakness is due to an Internet Explorer including the first 63 bytes of the file path in the 'Title' property when converting local HTML or MHT files to PDF using a PDF printer. This can lead to the exposure of certain system information e.g. the user name. Vulnerability Impact: Successful attacks which may leads to the exposure of system information on the affected system. Affected Software/OS: Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6/7/8. Solution: No known solution was made available for at least one year since the disclosure of this vulnerability. Likely none will be provided anymore. General solution options are to upgrade to a newer release, disable respective features, remove the product or replace the product by another one. CVSS Score: 5.0 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
Cross-Ref: |
BugTraq ID: 37117 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-4073 Bugtraq: 20091123 Millions of PDF invisibly embedded with your internal disk paths (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508010/100/0/threaded http://securethoughts.com/2009/11/millions-of-pdf-invisibly-embedded-with-your-internal-disk-paths/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/23/internet_explorer_file_disclosure_bug/ http://osvdb.org/60504 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12355 http://secunia.com/advisories/37362 |
Copyright | Copyright (C) 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH |
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