Exploitation Summary
CVE-2026-48027 is actively exploited and listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, added May 27, 2026.
Description
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.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
X_Refsource_Confirm x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/nrwl/nx-console/security/advisories/GHSA-c9j4-9m59-847w
X_Refsource_Misc x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/nrwl/nx-console/issues/3139
X_Refsource_Misc x_refsource_misc
https://nx.dev/blog/nx-console-v18-95-0-postmortem#indicators-of-compromise
X_Refsource_Misc x_refsource_misc
https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/nx-console-vs-code-extension-compromised
Scores
CVSS v4
9.3
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Details
CISA KEV
2026-05-27
VulnCheck KEV
2026-05-27
CWE
CWE-506
Status
published
Products (1)
nrwl/nx-console
= 18.95.0
Published
May 27, 2026
KEV Added
May 27, 2026
Tracked Since
May 27, 2026