HIGH 8.4 NVD
CVE-2026-86819
Waves Central for macOS contains a local privilege escalation in the privileged helper service. The helper authorizes connecting XPC clients by comparing the ca
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.
References
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cisagov/CSAF/develop/csaf_files/IT/white/2026/va-26-251-
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-86819
- https://www.waves.com/downloads/release-notes#v17
This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.4 was published on 2026-09-08 via NVD.
vulnfeed aggregates 13138 vulnerabilities from NVD, CISA KEV,
Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, Kubernetes, Exploit-DB, OSS-Security, GitHub and OpenStack — updated every 4 hours.