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CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Nx Console Embedded Malicious Code Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV
2026-05-27
Remediation due
2026-06-10
Ransomware
Known use

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.

CISA notes
This vulnerability could affect an open-source component, third-party library, protocol, or proprietary implementation that could be used by different products. For more information, please see: https://github.com/nrwl/nx-console/security/advisories/GHSA-c9j4-9m59-847w ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-48027

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.

Severity

CVSS 4.0 · CNA9.3 CRITICAL
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
SSVC · CISA-ADP
Exploitationactive
Automatableyes
Technical impacttotal

Exploitation Context

as of October 15, 2026
All KEV statistics→
  • CISA added CVE-2026-48027 to the KEV catalog on the day its CVE record was published. The median for entries added in 2026 so far is 14 days.
  • Its current EPSS score (1.3%) is higher than that of 5% of CISA KEV entries.

Affected Products

ProductAffected versions
nrwl
nx-console
= 18.95.0

Related

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