CVE-2020-28638

Published: Nov 13, 2020Modified: Jun 17, 2026

9.8

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 5.9

Source: NVD

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 (1)

Products: Dyne: Tomb

Dyne

1 product

Tomb

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Dyne Tomb	From 2.0 to 2.7

Related CWEs

CWE-287

Improper Authentication

When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.

References (2)

https://github.com/dyne/Tomb/issues/385

Source: cve@mitre.org

ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory

https://github.com/dyne/Tomb/issues/385

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory

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