CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-28638

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2020-11-13 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-11-13
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-287

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.

Affected configurations

• dyne tomb (>= 2.0 <= 2.7)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness

References