7.8 CVE-2026-24064
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.
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-24064
Categories
CWE-426 : Untrusted Search Path
References
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
551230f0-3615-47bd-b7cc-93e92e730bbf
AFFECTED (from MITRE)
| Vendor |
Product |
Versions |
| Waves Audio Ltd. |
Waves Central |
- 13.0.9 ≤ 16.5.5 [affected]
|
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CPE
REMEDIATION
EXPLOITS
Exploit-db.com
| id |
description |
date |
|
| No known exploits |
POC Github
Other Nist (github, ...)
CAPEC
Common Attack Pattern Enumerations and Classifications
| id |
description |
severity |
| 38 |
Leveraging/Manipulating Configuration File Search Paths
This pattern of attack sees an adversary load a malicious resource into a program's standard path so that when a known command is executed then the system instead executes the malicious component. The adversary can either modify the search path a program uses, like a PATH variable or classpath, or they can manipulate resources on the path to point to their malicious components. J2EE applications and other component based applications that are built from multiple binaries can have very long list of dependencies to execute. If one of these libraries and/or references is controllable by the attacker then application controls can be circumvented by the attacker. |
Very High |
MITRE
Techniques
| id |
description |
| T1574.007 |
Hijack Execution Flow:Path Interception by PATH Environment Variable |
| T1574.009 |
Hijack Execution Flow: Path Interception by Unquoted Path |
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Mitigations
| id |
description |
| M1022 |
Ensure that proper permissions and directory access control are set to deny users the ability to write files to the top-level directory <code>C:</code> and system directories, such as <code>C:Windows</code>, to reduce places where malicious files could be placed for execution. Require that all executables be placed in write-protected directories. |
| M1022 |
Ensure that proper permissions and directory access control are set to deny users the ability to write files to the top-level directory <code>C:</code> and system directories, such as <code>C:Windows</code>, to reduce places where malicious files could be placed for execution. Require that all executables be placed in write-protected directories. |
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