CVE-2020-28638

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last 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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 9.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Nov 13, 2020
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2020-28638: Critical severity, CVSS 9.8 | Vulnix