Thumbor is an open-source photo thumbnail service by globo.com. Prior to 7.8.0, Thumbor's filters:proportion(<value>) filter does not enforce an upper bound on <value> and runs in the post-transform phase. An attacker can trigger extremely large resizes (CPU/memory exhaustion) and cause denial of service. This issue is fixed in 7.8.0.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-phj3-59pf-cp83 Thumbor proportion filter allows unbounded post-transform resize leading to remote DoS
Fixes

Solution

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Workaround

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History

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:30:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Thumbor
Thumbor thumbor
Vendors & Products Thumbor
Thumbor thumbor

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:15:00 +0000

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Description Thumbor is an open-source photo thumbnail service by globo.com. Prior to 7.8.0, Thumbor's filters:proportion(<value>) filter does not enforce an upper bound on <value> and runs in the post-transform phase. An attacker can trigger extremely large resizes (CPU/memory exhaustion) and cause denial of service. This issue is fixed in 7.8.0.
Title Thumbor proportion filter allows unbounded post-transform resize leading to remote DoS
Weaknesses CWE-400
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-03T17:20:37.186Z

Reserved: 2026-06-09T17:05:25.059Z

Link: CVE-2026-53505

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-08-03T17:20:31.883Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-07-31T19:17:10.123

Modified: 2026-08-03T18:16:39.617

Link: CVE-2026-53505

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-02T20:32:15Z

Weaknesses