CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-1109

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2001-01-09 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-01-09
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Midnight Commander (mc) 4.5.51 and earlier does not properly process malformed directory names when a user opens a directory, which allows other local users to gain privileges by creating directories that contain special characters followed by the commands to be executed.

Affected configurations

• midnight commander midnight commander 4.5.40 • midnight commander midnight commander 4.5.41 • midnight commander midnight commander 4.5.42 • midnight commander midnight commander 4.5.43 • midnight commander midnight commander 4.5.44 • midnight commander midnight commander 4.5.45 • midnight commander midnight commander 4.5.46 • midnight commander midnight commander 4.5.47 • midnight commander midnight commander 4.5.48 • midnight commander midnight commander 4.5.49 • midnight commander midnight commander 4.5.50 • midnight commander midnight commander 4.5.51

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