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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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Description 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.
Title Local Privilege Escalation via Insecure XPC Client Validation in Waves Central for macOS
Weaknesses CWE-367
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: SEC-VLab

Published:

Updated: 2026-06-09T15:58:35.788Z

Reserved: 2026-01-21T11:29:19.853Z

Link: CVE-2026-24065

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-06-09T15:54:43.741Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-06-09T16:16:39.477

Modified: 2026-06-09T19:36:10.547

Link: CVE-2026-24065

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-06-09T17:30:10Z