{"id":"CVE-2026-86819","aliases":["EUVD-2026-74192","GHSA-pvv8-qxr5-pq93"],"status":"published","title":"Waves Central local privilege escalation via Improper XPC Client Authentication in macOS","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.","severity":{"version":"4.0","score":8.4,"vector":"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","level":"high","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-10","score":0.001,"percentile":0.00868,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-862"],"published":"2026-09-08T20:22:57Z","modified":"2026-09-14T14:17:17Z","products":[{"vendor":"waves audio ltd.","product":"waves central"}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.waves.com/downloads/release-notes#v17"},{"url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-86819","tags":["vdb-entry"]},{"url":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cisagov/CSAF/develop/csaf_files/IT/white/2026/va-26-251-02.json","tags":["third-party-advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-86819"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pvv8-qxr5-pq93"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-86819","title":"Waves Central local privilege escalation via Improper XPC Client Authentication in macOS","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.","status":"published","published":"2026-09-08T20:22:57.586Z","modified":"2026-09-14T13:50:49.32Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":8.4,"vector":"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","level":"high","assessor":"cna"},{"version":"3.1","score":7.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N","level":"high","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-862"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T13:49:31.546614Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2026-74192","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.","status":"published","published":"2026-09-08T20:22:57Z","modified":"2026-09-14T13:50:49Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":8.4,"vector":"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","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T17:28:20.757989Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-pvv8-qxr5-pq93","title":"Waves Central for macOS contains a local privilege escalation in the privileged helper service....","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.","status":"published","published":"2026-09-08T21:34:34Z","modified":"2026-09-08T21:34:42Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N","level":"high"},{"version":"4.0","score":8.4,"vector":"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","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-862"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:11:36.851913Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2026-86819","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). 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