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

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-3621, GHSA-PHJ3-59PF-CP83
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 7.8.0
- Published: 2026-07-31 · Updated: 2026-08-03

## Affected

- thumbor: fixed in 7.8.0
- thumbor (PyPI): fixed in 7.8.0

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on thumbor, upgrade to a fixed version (7.8.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/thumbor/thumbor/security/advisories/GHSA-phj3-59pf-cp83
- https://github.com/thumbor/thumbor/commit/2c716119de986cfc68c7071af52a98187e006023
- https://github.com/thumbor/thumbor/releases/tag/7.8.0

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