CVE-2026-48027

Beskrivelse

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.

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Berørte produkter

Svakhetstype

• CWE-506: Embedded Malicious Code

  The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.

Angrepsteknikker

Utledet gjennom svakhetstypen: CVE til CWE til CAPEC til ATT&CK. Dette viser hvilke teknikker svakhetsklassen historisk brukes til. Det er ikke en påstand om at nettopp denne sårbarheten er utnyttet slik.

• T1001.002: Steganography command-and-control
• T1027.003: Steganography stealth
• T1027.004: Compile After Delivery stealth
• T1027.009: Embedded Payloads stealth
• T1195.001: Compromise Software Dependencies and Development Tools initial-access
• T1195.002: Compromise Software Supply Chain initial-access
• T1218.001: Compiled HTML File stealth
• T1221: Template Injection stealth

Referanser

• https://github.com/nrwl/nx-console/issues/3139 Issue Tracking
• https://github.com/nrwl/nx-console/security/advisories/GHSA-c9j4-9m59-847w Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
• https://nx.dev/blog/nx-console-v18-95-0-postmortem#indicators-of-compromise Vendor Advisory
• https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/nx-console-vs-code-extension-compromised Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2026-48027 US Government Resource