CVE-2026-53505: Thumbor proportion filter allows unbounded post-transform resize leading to remote DoS

July 31, 2026

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.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-phj3-59pf-cp83
github.com/thumbor/thumbor/commit/2c716119de986cfc68c7071af52a98187e006023
github.com/thumbor/thumbor/releases/tag/7.8.0
github.com/thumbor/thumbor/security/advisories/GHSA-phj3-59pf-cp83
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53505

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