CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-28638

Improper Authentication

Published: Nov 13, 2020 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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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.

Weakness

When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
TombDyne2.0 (including)2.7 (including)
TombUbuntubionic*
TombUbuntufocal*
TombUbuntugroovy*
TombUbuntutrusty*
TombUbuntuupstream*

Potential Mitigations

References