CVE-2021-47869

HIGH

Brother BRAdmin Professional 3.75 - Local Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2021-47869. PoCs published by Metin Yunus Kandemir.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This writeup describes an unquoted service path vulnerability in BRAdmin Professional 3.75, where the service 'BRA_Scheduler' is susceptible to local privilege escalation if an executable named 'BRAdmin' is placed in the 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Brother\' directory.

Description

Brother BRAdmin Professional 3.75 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability in the BRA_Scheduler service that allows local users to potentially execute arbitrary code. Attackers can place a malicious executable named 'BRAdmin' in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Brother\ directory to gain local system privileges.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WRITEUP
by Metin Yunus Kandemir · textlocalwindows
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/49671

This writeup describes an unquoted service path vulnerability in BRAdmin Professional 3.75, where the service 'BRA_Scheduler' is susceptible to local privilege escalation if an executable named 'BRAdmin' is placed in the 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Brother\' directory.

Classification
Writeup 90%
Attack Type
Lpe
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: BRAdmin Professional 3.75.0000
Auth required
Prerequisites: Local access to the system · Ability to write to the 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Brother\' directory
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (5)

Core 5

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0013
EPSS Percentile 2.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-428
Status published
Products (1)
Brother Industries, Ltd./BRAdmin Professional 3.75.0000
Published Jan 21, 2026
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026