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CVE-2026-86819

Waves Central for macOS contains a local privilege escalation in the privileged helper service.

HIGH 8.4EPSS 0.07%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.07%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

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.

CVSS 4.0: 8.4 HIGHCVSS: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/M
EPSS: 0.07% probability · 0th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-862
Source: 9119a7d8-5eab-497f-8521-727c672e3725

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.