Strange audio artifact in Mediabay player (Cubase & Nuendo 14)

Today I noticed that one of my files (not all files, just one in particular) had a strange background tone when playing it back in the media sidebar and mediabay.

Video of the problem:

When I play the file back in Quicklook (Mac Finder), the high-pitched background tone is not audible!

Here are some details about the file in question:

I tested a few other files that had 96000 kHz (my project runs at 48000) but the sample rate doesn’t seem to have any effect. Other files with that sample rate don’t produce this artifact.

Any ideas?

Got report from a colleague on Cubase 14 on Windows with the same issue!

if anyone would like to test for themselves, possibly with Cubase 15 or Nuendo 15, please PM me and I’ll send you the WAV file in question