CVE-2026-13723

Develar's electron-builder allows arbitrary file overwrite

Medium · published July 29, 2026

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
40.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00480 · 40.4th percentile
Published
2026-07-29T17:25Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 29 JUL 17:25Z
    Develar's electron-builder allows arbitrary file overwrite
    cvelistv5