CVE-2020-28638 is a critical vulnerability affecting Tomb versions 2.0 through 2.7, where a specific condition involving pinentry-curses and the $DISPLAY environment variable can lead to files being encrypted with a warning message as the key. This flaw carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), indicating a severe risk with network-based attacks, low complexity, and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 2.0, <= 2.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:dyne:tomb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.