CVE-2020-28638
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28638
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-28638.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-28638
- Downstream
- Published
- 2020-11-13T21:15:12.817Z
- Modified
- 2025-11-14T11:05:36.353499Z
- Severity
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- 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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