Local Privilege Escalation via Dynamic Library Injection in Waves Central for macOS

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.15% · top 96% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.

Weakness

• CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-426 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Waves Audio Ltd. · Waves Central

  • affected 13.0.9 – ≤ 16.5.5

What to do

Solution: The issue is fixed in version 16.6.2 or higher which can be downloaded at the vendor's download page at https://www.waves.com/downloads/central

References (1)

• https://r.sec-consult.com/waves (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryexploit

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 10 Jun 2026, 14:32 UTC.