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 (5)
Core 5
Core References
US Government Resource
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2026-48027
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 v3
9.8
EPSS
0.0095
EPSS Percentile
56.6%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
active
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
total
Details
CISA KEV
2026-05-27
VulnCheck KEV
2026-05-27
ENISA EUVD
EUVD-2026-32550
CWE
CWE-506
Status
published
Products (2)
nrwl/nx-console
= 18.95.0
nx/nx_console
18.95.0
Published
May 27, 2026
KEV Added
May 27, 2026
Tracked Since
May 27, 2026