Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 29, 2026· Updated Jul 29, 2026
Develar's electron-builder allows arbitrary file overwrite
CVE-2026-13723
Description
A vulnerability in the zipx.Unzip extraction routine of Develar's app-builder allows an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files on macOS APFS by exploiting a Unicode Normalization Collision combined with symlink following behavior. APFS treats certain Unicode equivalent filenames as identical (e.g., ß ↔ ss), while app builder performs no canonical normalization before validating or writing paths. As a result, a crafted ZIP archive containing: • a symlink entry named ss pointing to a target file, and • a regular file named ß containing attacker controlled data, will cause the second write to follow the symlink and overwrite the target file.
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