CVE-2026-24065
HighCVSS 8.1Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk20th percentile - higher than 20% of all known CVEs
Summary
Waves Central for macOS versions 13.0.9 through 16.5.5 contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the privileged helper service. An attacker can exploit a race condition, allowing arbitrary code execution as root.
Risk Assessment
This vulnerability poses a serious security risk, enabling local attackers to gain full system privileges.
Recommendation
It is recommended to update to version 16.6.2 or later to mitigate this vulnerability.
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.