CVE-2000-1108: Midnight Commander

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

cons.saver in Midnight Commander (mc) 4.5.42 and earlier does not properly verify if an output file descriptor is a TTY, which allows local users to corrupt files by creating a symbolic link to the target file, calling mc, and specifying that link as a TTY argument.

Affected products

• Midnight Commander Midnight Commander: version 4.5.42 only

Published 2001-01-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.