CVE-2020-28638

PoC —

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

EPSS

<1%p52

Published

Nov 13, 2020 (Nov 13, 2020)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

ask_password in Tomb 2.0 through 2.7 returns a warning when pinentry-curses is used and $DISPLAY is non-empty, causing affected users' files to be encrypted with "tomb {W] Detected DISPLAY, but only pinentry-curses is found." as the encryption key.

Vendors: dyne
Products: tomb
Weakness: CWE-287
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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