Advisory record · GHSA-6x26-6r6f-m537

Thumbor treats ALLOWED_SOURCES string patterns as unescaped regex, allowing hostname bypass via wildcard dot

CVSS 8.2 HighEPSS 0.0050 · 43rd percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 31 Jul 2026, 18:36 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
thumborPyPI<7.8.07.8.0
Identifiers
GHSA-6x26-6r6f-m537 · CVE-2026-53500 · PYSEC-2026-3617
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-918 · CWE-1333
Published
31 Jul 2026
Updated
4 Aug 2026

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Thumbor versions before 7.8.0 treat plain-string entries in ALLOWED_SOURCES as unescaped regular expressions, so a dot in a hostname matches any character. An attacker who can influence the image URL, which is possible with the default ALLOW_UNSAFE_URL setting or when user input reaches a signed URL endpoint, can fetch images from hosts outside the allowlist. Upgrade to Thumbor 7.8.0 or later; to work around the issue before upgrading, supply compiled regular expression patterns for ALLOWED_SOURCES instead of plain strings.

Written 5 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
8.2 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L CNA (GitHub_M)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0050, the 43rd percentile, on 12 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 14:41 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 14:41 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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