Waves Audio Ltd. CVE debriefs

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HIGH Waves Audio Ltd. CVE published 2026-09-08

CVE-2026-86819

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Waves Central for macOS due to improper validation of client code-signing certificates by the privileged helper service. This allows a local, authenticated user to execute code within the vendor-signed process and cause the helper to execute a script with root privileges. The issue was fixed in version 17.0.