CVE-2026-48027
9.8, critical Known exploited Used in ransomwareNx Console Embedded Malicious Code Vulnerability
- CVSS
- 9.8, critical critical CVSS v3.1
- EPSS, next 30 days
- 1% higher than 70.7% of scored CVEs
- Exploitation
- Confirmed in the wild
- Published
- 27 May 20264 months ago
Known exploited
CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 27 May 2026 and links it to ransomware activity. US federal agencies had to remediate by 10 Jun 2026, a deadline that has passed.
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.
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.
Details
- Vendor
- Nx
- Product
- nx-console
- Weakness
- CWE-506 (opens in a new tab)
- Status
- Analyzed
- Updated
- 14 Oct 2026
- Assigner
- security-advisories@github.com
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References 5
Advisories 2
The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.
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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 17 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.