CVE-2026-24065
HighCVSS 8.1Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk25th percentile - higher than 25% of all known CVEs
Summary
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.
Risk Assessment
A local attacker can gain full root control of the system, enabling malware installation or data theft.
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-2026-24064High
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.
Original NVD description (English source)
Waves Central for macOS versions 13.0.9 through 16.5.5 contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the privileged helper service. The helper validates connecting XPC clients using the client process identifier (PID) to verify code-signing identity. Because process identifiers can be reused, a local attacker can exploit a race condition between the time a connection request is made and the time the helper performs validation, causing the helper to trust an attacker-controlled process. This allows the attacker to invoke privileged operations, resulting in arbitrary code execution as root. The issue is fixed in version 16.6.2.
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