CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-86819

8.4 HIGH Published 2026-09-08 Modified 2026-09-14 Official page ↗
Status
Awaiting Analysis
Published
2026-09-08
Last modified
2026-09-14
Assigner
9119a7d8-5eab-497f-8521-727c672e3725
CVSS 4.0 (9119a7d8-5eab-497f-8521-727c672e3725)
8.4 HIGH — CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CVSS 3.1 (9119a7d8-5eab-497f-8521-727c672e3725)
7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-862

Description

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.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness

References