Mozilla Firefox DATA URI File Deletion Vulnerability

BID:11311

Info

Mozilla Firefox DATA URI File Deletion Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 11311
Class: Failure to Handle Exceptional Conditions
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Oct 02 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Oct 02 2004 12:00AM
Credit: This vulnerability was reported to the vendor by Alex Vincent.
Vulnerable: Mozilla Firefox 0.10
Mozilla Firefox 0.9.3
Mozilla Firefox 0.9.2
Mozilla Firefox 0.9.1
Mozilla Firefox 0.9 rc
Mozilla Firefox 0.9
Mozilla Firefox 0.8
Mozilla Firefox Preview Release
Not Vulnerable: Mozilla Firefox 0.10.1

Discussion

Mozilla Firefox DATA URI File Deletion Vulnerability

It is reported that Mozilla Firefox is susceptible to a file deletion vulnerability.

This vulnerability allows attackers that can lure unsuspecting users to view malicious HTML or script code to cause the recursive deletion of the victim users configured download directory. They can achieve this by crafting malicious web pages containing either HTML or script code that utilizes the 'data:' URI scheme.

This vulnerability is reported to exist in Mozilla Firefox in versions prior to 0.10.1.

Exploit / POC

Mozilla Firefox DATA URI File Deletion Vulnerability

An exploit is not required for this vulnerability.

Solution / Fix

Mozilla Firefox DATA URI File Deletion Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released version 0.10.1 of Firefox, as well as a patch for Firefox Preview Release users addressing this issue:


Mozilla Firefox Preview Release

Mozilla Firefox 0.10

Mozilla Firefox 0.8

Mozilla Firefox 0.9

Mozilla Firefox 0.9 rc

Mozilla Firefox 0.9.1

Mozilla Firefox 0.9.2

Mozilla Firefox 0.9.3

References

Mozilla Firefox DATA URI File Deletion Vulnerability

References:

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