Thumbor is an open-source photo thumbnail service by globo.com. Prior to 7.8.0, the ALLOWED_SOURCES configuration passes plain strings to re.match() without escaping dots, so a hostname differing at dot positions can match the allowlist. This issue is fixed in 7.8.0.

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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-6x26-6r6f-m537 Thumbor treats ALLOWED_SOURCES string patterns as unescaped regex, allowing hostname bypass via wildcard dot
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Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:30:00 +0000

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


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Description Thumbor is an open-source photo thumbnail service by globo.com. Prior to 7.8.0, the ALLOWED_SOURCES configuration passes plain strings to re.match() without escaping dots, so a hostname differing at dot positions can match the allowlist. This issue is fixed in 7.8.0.
Title Thumbor treats ALLOWED_SOURCES string patterns as unescaped regex, allowing hostname bypass via wildcard dot
Weaknesses CWE-918
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-07-31T23:30:44.046Z

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

Link: CVE-2026-53500

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Updated: 2026-07-31T23:30:12.623Z

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