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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
nrwl nx-console
= 18.95.0affected
References
- https://github.com/nrwl/nx-console/security/advisories/GHSA-c9j4-9m59-847w ↗
- https://github.com/nrwl/nx-console/issues/3139 ↗
- https://nx.dev/blog/nx-console-v18-95-0-postmortem#indicators-of-compromise ↗
- https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/nx-console-vs-code-extension-compromised ↗
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2026-48027 ↗