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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-13723 EUVD-2026-50423GHSA-m52r-27c6-4q88

Develar's electron-builder allows arbitrary file overwrite

Published Jul 29, 2026 · Updated Jul 29, 2026 · Assigned by certcc

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Develar app-builder ≤ 4.2.0 —

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