CVE-2026-24065
highpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.003 · 24 %ileEUEPSS · scored 2026-10-23
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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references (6)
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- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2026-24065cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-24065cnnvd
- https://www.waves.com/downloads/centralPatchcnnvd
- https://r.sec-consult.com/wavesenisa_euvd
- https://r.sec-consult.com/wavesnvd
- https://sec-consult.com/vulnerability-lab/advisory/multiple-local-privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities-in-waves-audio-waves-central/nvd
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