CVE-2026-24064
HighCVSS 7.8Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk5th percentile - higher than 5% of all known CVEs
Summary
Waves Central for macOS versions 13.0.9 through 16.5.5 has a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A trusted XPC client component is signed with entitlements allowing dynamic library injection, enabling a local attacker to execute arbitrary code as root.
Risk Assessment
A local attacker can gain full system control, leading to data confidentiality and integrity compromise.
Recommendation
Update Waves Central to version 16.6.2 or later.
Other vulnerabilities in Waves Central
See all- CVE-2026-86819High
Waves Central for macOS contains a local privilege escalation in the privileged helper service. The helper authorizes connecting XPC clients by comparing the caller's code-signing certificate chain for equality with its own, rather than validating the caller against a pinned code requirement. A local, authenticated user can execute code within the vendor-signed process, satisfy the helper's client check, and cause the helper to execute a script with root privileges.
- CVE-2026-24065High
A local privilege escalation vulnerability in Waves Central for macOS versions 13.0.9 through 16.5.5 exists in the privileged helper service. An attacker can exploit a race condition in PID validation to execute code as root. Fixed in version 16.6.2.
Original NVD description (English source)
Waves Central for macOS versions 13.0.9 through 16.5.5 contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A trusted XPC client component included with the product is signed with hardened runtime entitlements that permit dynamic library injection. A local attacker can set the DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES environment variable to inject an attacker-controlled dynamic library into the trusted client process at launch. The injected code runs within the signed process and can connect to the product's privileged helper service to invoke privileged operations, resulting in arbitrary code execution as root. The issue is fixed in version 16.6.2.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS