CVE catalog

CVE-2020-28638

tomb: CVE-2020-28638

[CVE catalog]

Severity
Medium
Published
Source
[NVD] · [CVE record]
EPSS
0.71% · Oct 27, 2026

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.

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.

DistributionPackageReleaseVersionStatus
Debiantombsid2.13+dfsg-1fixed
Debiantombforky2.13+dfsg-1fixed
Debiantombtrixie2.11+dfsg-2fixed
Debiantombbookworm2.9+dfsg1-2fixed
Ubuntutomb18.042.4+dfsg1-1vulnerable
Ubuntutomb18.042.5+dfsg1-1vulnerable
Ubuntutomb20.042.6+dfsg1-1vulnerable
Ubuntutomb20.042.6+dfsg1-2vulnerable
Ubuntutomb20.042.7+dfsg2-1vulnerable

Fixed-version evidence

DistributionPackageTypeReleaseFixed versionUrgencyOriginBugs
Debiantombsourcesid2.8+dfsg1-1not yet assignedNot reported[974719]
Debiantombsourceforky2.8+dfsg1-1not yet assignedNot reported[974719]
Debiantombsourcetrixie2.8+dfsg1-1not yet assignedNot reported[974719]
Debiantombsourcebookworm2.8+dfsg1-1not yet assignedNot reported[974719]

[Debian bug #974719]

OpenFactory catalog packages

[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]

  • [tomb]Fixed
    Details (2)

    • 2.9+dfsg1-2 · amd64 · bookworm

      Fixed · Fixed: 2.8+dfsg1-1

      dsa · tomb · debian · bookworm; dsa · tomb · debian · 12

    • 2.9+dfsg1-2 · arm64 · bookworm

      Fixed · Fixed: 2.8+dfsg1-1

      dsa · tomb · debian · bookworm; dsa · tomb · debian · 12

[Debian 13 (Trixie)]

  • [tomb]Fixed
    Details (2)

    • 2.11+dfsg-2 · amd64 · trixie

      Fixed · Fixed: 2.8+dfsg1-1

      dsa · tomb · debian · 13

    • 2.11+dfsg-2 · arm64 · trixie

      Fixed · Fixed: 2.8+dfsg1-1

      dsa · tomb · debian · 13

Observed:

References

[Debian Security Tracker] · [FIRST EPSS] · [OSV Package Vulnerability Database]