CVE-2020-28638

9.8 criticalEPSS 0.7%

Critical (9.8) in dyne tomb. EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

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

EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 53% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-287
Published: 2020-11-13
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

dyne:tomb

References

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

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