UBUNTU-CVE-2020-28638

See a problem?
Please try reporting it to the source first.
Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-28638
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2020/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-28638.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-28638
Upstream
Published
2020-11-13T21:15:00Z
Modified
2025-10-24T04:48:54Z
Severity
  • 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
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

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

Affected packages

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / tomb

Package

Name
tomb
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/tomb@2.5+dfsg1-1?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

2.*

2.4+dfsg1-1
2.5+dfsg1-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "2.5+dfsg1-1",
            "binary_name": "tomb"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2020/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-28638.json"

Ubuntu:20.04:LTS / tomb

Package

Name
tomb
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/tomb@2.7+dfsg2-1?arch=source&distro=focal

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

2.*

2.6+dfsg1-1
2.6+dfsg1-2
2.7+dfsg2-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "2.7+dfsg2-1",
            "binary_name": "tomb"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2020/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-28638.json"