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High VA-26-251-02 1 CVE

Waves Central local privilege escalation via Improper XPC Client Authentication in macOS

Published Sep 8, 2026 · Updated Sep 8, 2026

Summary

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, unprivileged 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.

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.1

    Waves Central local privilege escalation via Improper XPC Client Authentication in macOS

    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 …

Revision history

  1. #1.0.0

    Initial publication