VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2026-48027
CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability1.85%
CISA KEVKnown exploited vulnerability
Published2026-05-27
Last modified2026-10-14
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Known Exploited Vulnerability
Nx Console Embedded Malicious Code Vulnerability
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.
Weakness classification
- security-advisories@github.com: CWE-506
Primary references
- security-advisories@github.com — Issue Tracking
- security-advisories@github.com — Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
- security-advisories@github.com — Vendor Advisory
- security-advisories@github.com — Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 — US Government Resource