CVE-2026-48027

9.8 CRITICAL

Nx Console is the user interface for Nx & Lerna

Published: 2026-05-27 · Last updated: 2026-05-27

Severity and scoring

CVSS: 9.8 CRITICAL
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE: CWE-506

Affected products

Vendor	Product
nx	nx_console

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.

Source: NVD

References

[NVD]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-48027
[Other]https://github.com/nrwl/nx-console/issues/3139
[Vendor advisory]https://github.com/nrwl/nx-console/security/advisories/GHSA-c9j4-9m59-847w
[Vendor advisory]https://nx.dev/blog/nx-console-v18-95-0-postmortem#indicators-of-compromise
[Exploit reference]https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/nx-console-vs-code-extension-compromised
[Other]https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2026-48027

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