Description (CNA)
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 (application identifier and Team ID). 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. Fixed in 17.0.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| Waves Audio Ltd. / Waves Central | affected 16.6.2 before 17.0; unaffected 17.0 |
CWE
CWE-862
References
- https://www.waves.com/downloads/release-notes#v17
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-86819
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cisagov/CSAF/develop/csaf_files/IT/white/2026/va-26-251-02.json
ADP enrichment
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