FKIE_CVE-2026-86819

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-09-08 21:18 - Updated: 2026-09-14 14:17
Severity
7.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
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, 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
9119a7d8-5eab-497f-8521-727c672e3725https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cisagov/CSAF/develop/csaf_files/IT/white/2026/va-26-251-02.json
9119a7d8-5eab-497f-8521-727c672e3725https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-86819
9119a7d8-5eab-497f-8521-727c672e3725https://www.waves.com/downloads/release-notes#v17
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