CVE-2000-1109

CVE-2000-1109 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Midnight Commander (mc) versions 4.5.51 and earlier. The flaw allows local users to execute arbitrary commands by creating specially crafted directory names containing malicious characters, which are then improperly processed when another user opens the directory. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.6 (Medium), indicating that an attacker requires local access and low attack complexity to achieve partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this older vulnerability.