CVE-2026-86819 Waves Central - Privilege Escalation

Waves Central for macOS contains a local privilege escalation caused by improper code-signing certificate validation in the privileged helper service, letting local authenticated users execute code with root privileges, exploit requires local authentication.

CVSS base score 7.1 /10
High
CISA KEV
Not listed
Public exploit
None known
Authentication
Required
EPSS
0.10% chance of exploitation in 30 days
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Details

Type
Privilege Escalation
Impact
Privilege Escalation
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Published
8 September 2026
Updated
15 October 2026
Weakness
CWE-862

Vendor fix

Update to version 17.0 or later.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

References

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