CVE-2020-28638

CRITICAL

Tomb 2.0-2.7 - Improper Authentication via Pinentry-Curses Display Handling

Title source: llm

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.

References (1)

Core 1

Core References

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

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

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8

EPSS 0.0070

EPSS Percentile 48.7%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Details

CWE

CWE-287

Status published

Products (1)

dyne/tomb 2.0 - 2.7

Published Nov 13, 2020

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026