CVE-2004-2225

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2004-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 0.10.1 allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files in the download directory via a crafted data: URI that is not properly handled when the user clicks the Save button.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 0.8, 0.9, 0.9-rc, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3 (+2)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/12708
http://securitytracker.com/id?1011501
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/older-vulnerabilities.html#firefox0.10.1
http://www.osvdb.org/10478
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11311
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259708
http://secunia.com/advisories/12708
http://securitytracker.com/id?1011501
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/older-vulnerabilities.html#firefox0.10.1
http://www.osvdb.org/10478
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11311
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259708

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