CVE-2026-24064 (GCVE-0-2026-24064)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-09 14:47 – Updated: 2026-06-10 14:32
VLAI
Title
Local Privilege Escalation via Dynamic Library Injection in Waves Central for macOS
Summary
Waves Central for macOS versions 13.0.9 through 16.5.5 contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A trusted XPC client component included with the product is signed with hardened runtime entitlements that permit dynamic library injection. A local attacker can set the DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES environment variable to inject an attacker-controlled dynamic library into the trusted client process at launch. The injected code runs within the signed process and can connect to the product's privileged helper service to invoke privileged operations, resulting in arbitrary code execution as root. The issue is fixed in version 16.6.2.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://r.sec-consult.com/waves third-party-advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Waves Audio Ltd. Waves Central Affected: 13.0.9 , ≤ 16.5.5 (semver)
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Credits
Florian Haselsteiner, SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab
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