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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.