Vulnerability · Published Jun 9, 2026 · Assigned by SEC-VLab

CVE-2026-24064Local Privilege Escalation via Dynamic Library Injection in Waves Central for macOS

High 7.8

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in Waves Central from Waves Audio Ltd.. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 4% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.8High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 95.7% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Waves Audio Ltd.	Waves Central	13.0.9 – through 16.5.5

Weakness: CWE-426 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

https://r.sec-consult.com/waves third-party-advisory