LOW: CVE-2026-48027 actively exploited — multiple vendors
CVE: CVE-2026-48027
CVSS: 0 (v3) — ``
Severity: LOW
Status: ✅ Confirmed exploited in the wild (CISA KEV)
Affected
_See vendor advisory_
Summary
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.
Verified Sources
References
- https://github.com/nrwl/nx-console/issues/3139
- https://github.com/nrwl/nx-console/security/advisories/GHSA-c9j4-9m59-847w
- https://nx.dev/blog/nx-console-v18-95-0-postmortem#indicators-of-compromise
- https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/nx-console-vs-code-extension-compromised
_Validated by the Lyrie Threat Intelligence Pipeline — 3 independent sources confirmed before publication. No speculation._
Lyrie Verdict
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Validated sources
- [1]NVD
- [2]GitHub Advisory
- [3]MITRE
- [4]CISA KEV