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CVE-2000-1109

CVE information

Published

23 years ago

Last Modified

6 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

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..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Medium
Base Score
4.6/10
Exploit Score
3.9/10
Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
6.4/10
Confidentiality Impact
Partial
Availability Impact
Partial
Integrity Impact
Partial

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:midnight_commander:midnight_commander:4.5.48:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:midnight_commander:midnight_commander:4.5.40:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:midnight_commander:midnight_commander:4.5.43:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:midnight_commander:midnight_commander:4.5.50:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:midnight_commander:midnight_commander:4.5.49:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:midnight_commander:midnight_commander:4.5.42:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:midnight_commander:midnight_commander:4.5.45:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:midnight_commander:midnight_commander:4.5.44:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:midnight_commander:midnight_commander:4.5.41:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:midnight_commander:midnight_commander:4.5.46:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:midnight_commander:midnight_commander:4.5.47:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:midnight_commander:midnight_commander:4.5.51:*:*:*
  Yes
- -