# CVE-2000-1109: Command injection in n/a

> Local attackers can execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges by tricking a user into opening a directory with maliciously crafted names.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.6 (`AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 7 May 2001
- **Updated:** 8 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-22v9-p596-vfhg

## What is CVE-2000-1109?

CVE-2000-1109 is a medium-severity command injection vulnerability in n/a, published on 7 May 2001. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official 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.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2000-1109?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Midnight Commander Midnight Commander.

## How do I fix CVE-2000-1109?

No fix has been published for CVE-2000-1109 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2000-1109 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2000-1109 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in n/a

- [CVE-2003-1023](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2003-1023/): Memory corruption in n/a (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2005-0763](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2005-0763/): Memory corruption in n/a (medium 4.6)
- [CVE-2001-1429](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2001-1429/): Memory corruption in n/a (medium 4.6)
- [CVE-1999-1337](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-1999-1337/): Information disclosure in n/a (medium 4.6)
- [CVE-2000-1108](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2000-1108/): Path traversal in n/a (medium 4.6)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2000-1109 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2000-1109 is a medium-severity command injection vulnerability in n/a, published on 7 May 2001. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2000-1109 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2000-1109/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2000-1109/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2000-1109
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2000-1109
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2000-1109

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2000-1109/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.