Compromised Nx Console
A compromised version of the Nx Console extension was briefly available on the Visual Studio Marketplace and OpenVSX. The malicious version, 18.95.0, was published for approximately 18 minutes before being removed. Users are advised to update to version 18.100.0 and take steps to secure their credentials if they installed the compromised version.
- ▪The compromised Nx Console version 18.95.0 was available for about 18 minutes on the Visual Studio Marketplace.
- ▪Users are urged to update to version 18.100.0 to mitigate potential security risks.
- ▪The attack vector involved a supply-chain compromise that leaked GitHub credentials, allowing unauthorized access to the repository.
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Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/nrwl/nx-console/security/advisories/GHSA-c9j4-9m59-847w |
| Publication time | Thu, 21 May 2026 01:15:23 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-21T01:35:03.222Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-21T01:35:03.222Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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nrwl / nx-console Public Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings Fork 243 Star 1.4k Code Issues 45 Pull requests 7 Discussions Actions Security and quality 1 Insights Additional navigation options Code Issues Pull requests Discussions Actions Security and quality Insights nx-console Security Advisories GHSA-c9j4-9m59-847w Compromised Nx Console version 18.95.0 Critical jaysoo published GHSA-c9j4-9m59-847w May 18, 2026 Package Nx Console (VSCode) Affected versions 18.95.0 Patched versions 18.100.0 Description Update (May 19 13:37 UTC): Updated the timeline of the compromised VSCode extension. Added information about OpenVSX.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.