CVE-2023-49236 — A stack-based buffer overflow was discovered on TRENDnet TV-IP1314PI 5

A stack-based buffer overflow was discovered on TRENDnet TV-IP1314PI 5.5.3 200714 devices, leading to arbitrary command execution. This occurs because of lack of length validation during an sscanf of a user-entered scale field in the RTSP playback function of davinci.

01What is this vulnerability?

A stack-based buffer overflow was discovered on TRENDnet TV-IP1314PI 5.5.3 200714 devices, leading to arbitrary command execution. This occurs because of lack of length validation during an sscanf of a user-entered scale field in the RTSP playback function of davinci.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2024-01-09T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2025-06-20T15:25:37.479Z

09References

• drive.google.com — https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lTloBkH_7zAz1ZbFVSZnfpoPd81aPaHx/view?usp=shari…
• github.com — https://github.com/pcsle37/TRENDnet/blob/main/TRENDnet_vul.pdf