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CVE-2026-53500: Thumbor treats ALLOWED_SOURCES string patterns as unescaped regex, allowing hostname bypass via wildcard dot

July 31, 2026

The ALLOWED_SOURCES configuration is meant to restrict which hosts Thumbor’s HTTP loader may fetch images from. Plain-string entries in that list (the overwhelming majority of real-world and documented configurations) are passed directly to re.match() without escaping. Because . is a regex wildcard, every dot in a domain name becomes a bypass vector: s.glbimg.com silently matches sXglbimgYcom, sAglbimg.com, and any other hostname that differs only at a dot position. This undermines the primary SSRF defence that ALLOWED_SOURCES is intended to provide.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-6x26-6r6f-m537
  • github.com/thumbor/thumbor/commit/68876715350c6c8f49c324e5515e64908830aed7
  • github.com/thumbor/thumbor/releases/tag/7.8.0
  • github.com/thumbor/thumbor/security/advisories/GHSA-6x26-6r6f-m537
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53500

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Affected versions

All versions before 7.8.0

Fixed versions

  • 7.8.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 7.8.0 or above.

Impact 8.2 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L

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Weakness

  • CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Source file

pypi/thumbor/CVE-2026-53500.yml

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