CVE-2026-48027
criticalpriority · act · 90OT risk · criticalKEV · exploitedEPSS 0.018 · 79 %ileEUUSadded 2026-05-27remediate by 2026-06-10
required action Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
EPSS · scored 2026-10-27
Nx Console Embedded Malicious Code Vulnerability
Nx Console is the user interface for Nx & Lerna. On 19 May 2026, a malicious version of Nx Console, 18.95.0, was published at 12:30 PM UTC and removed soon after at 12:48 PM UTC, leaving it available for ~18 minutes in Visual Studio Marketplace. For OpenVSX, the problem was detected later, and the compromised version was available from 12:33 UTC to 13:09 UTC (~36 minutes). Version 18.100.0 of Nx Console is not compromised and users may remediate by upgrading to that version.
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affected products (2)
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references (15)
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- https://github.com/nrwl/nx-console/issues/3139cnnvd
- https://github.com/nrwl/nx-console/releasesPatchcnnvd
- https://github.com/nrwl/nx-console/security/advisories/GHSA-c9j4-9m59-847wcnnvd
- https://nx.dev/blog/nx-console-v18-95-0-postmortem#indicators-of-compromisecnnvd
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2026-48027cnnvd
- https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/nx-console-vs-code-extension-compromisedcnnvd
- https://github.com/nrwl/nx-console/issues/3139enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/nrwl/nx-console/security/advisories/GHSA-c9j4-9m59-847wenisa_euvd
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