Other nomination

Millions of PDF invisibly embedded with your internal disk paths

Printing a locally saved web page to PDF through Internet Explorer's print handler embeds the file's full local disk path invisibly in the PDF title attribute, separate from the visible footer and not removable through Page Setup. Search-engine filetype queries per drive letter suggested over 50 million public PDFs leaking internal paths.

In the archive

• Nominated for the 2009 Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques

Tags

• pdf
• info-leak
• large-scale-scan
• measurement-study
• detection
• owasp-a09-2021

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