CVE-2000-1109: Midnight Commander

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Midnight Commander Midnight Commander: version 4.5.40 only; version 4.5.41 only; version 4.5.42 only; version 4.5.43 only; version 4.5.44 only; version 4.5.45 only; …

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