CVE-2026-1169
Published: 19 January 2026
Summary
CVE-2026-1169 is a medium-severity CSRF (CWE-352) vulnerability in Birkir Prime. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 9.6th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and AC-6 (Least Privilege).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2026-1169, published on 2026-01-19, is a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in birkir prime versions up to 0.4.0.beta.0. The issue affects unknown code within the software and is associated with CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery) and CWE-862 (Missing Authorization). It has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N), indicating medium severity with network accessibility, low attack complexity, no privileges required, user interaction needed, unchanged scope, no confidentiality or availability impact, and low integrity impact.
Attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely without authentication by tricking users into performing unintended actions on a trusted site, typically via a malicious webpage or link that submits forged requests. Exploitation requires user interaction, such as clicking a link or visiting a site while authenticated to the affected birkir prime instance, potentially leading to unauthorized state changes due to the low integrity impact.
References indicate the vulnerability was reported early to the project via GitHub issue #547 at https://github.com/birkir/prime/issues/547, but the maintainers have not responded. No patches or specific mitigations are detailed in the advisories from VulDB (https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.341763, https://vuldb.com/?id.341763, https://vuldb.com/?submit.731287). The exploit has been publicly disclosed and may be used; practitioners should monitor the repository at https://github.com/birkir/prime/ for updates and consider CSRF protections like tokens in the interim.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-3205
Vulnerability details
A security vulnerability has been detected in birkir prime up to 0.4.0.beta.0. This vulnerability affects unknown code. Such manipulation leads to cross-site request forgery. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploit has been disclosed publicly and may be used.…
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The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet.
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Why these techniques?
CSRF enables remote exploitation of a public-facing web application via forged requests requiring user interaction.
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Mitigating Controls
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Directly enforces authorization on every request so that forged cross-site requests cannot trigger state changes without a valid, intended authorization decision.
Protects session authenticity, making it harder for an attacker to abuse an existing authenticated session with a forged request.
Limits the privileges available to any session, reducing the impact of a successful CSRF action that bypasses origin checks.