Vulnerabilities > CVE-2000-1109 - Unspecified vulnerability in Midnight Commander Midnight Commander
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
Nessus
| NASL family | Debian Local Security Checks |
| NASL id | DEBIAN_DSA-036.NASL |
| description | It has been reported that a local user could tweak Midnight Commander of another user into executing an arbitrary program under the user id of the person running Midnight Commander. This behaviour has been fixed by Andrew V. Samoilov. |
| last seen | 2020-06-01 |
| modified | 2020-06-02 |
| plugin id | 14873 |
| published | 2004-09-29 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2004-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/14873 |
| title | Debian DSA-036-1 : Midnight Commander - arbitrary program execution |