CVE-2006-1166

Severity: low (CVSS 3.7 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-03-12 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Monotone 0.25 and earlier, when a user creates a file in a directory called "mt", and when checking out that file on a case-insensitive file system such as Windows or Mac OS X, places the file into the "MT" bookkeeping directory, which could allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary Lua programs as the user running monotone.

Affected products

Monotone: 0.25

References

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/monotone-devel/2006-03/msg00062.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/19260
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17139
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0990
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25294
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/monotone-devel/2006-03/msg00062.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/19260
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17139
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0990
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25294

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