CVE-2026-24064

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

Vendor Waves Audio Ltd.
Product Waves Central
Weakness CWE-426
Published June 9, 2026
Last update June 10, 2026

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What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

June 9, 2026 CVE published
June 10, 2026 Record updated