CVE-2026-24065

Summary

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.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-367: CWE-367 Time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical Impact: total

Additional References

• https://sec-consult.com/vulnerability-lab/advisory/multiple-local-privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities-in-waves-audio-waves-central/

References

• https://r.sec-consult.com/waves

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