Vulnerabilities > CVE-2003-0169 - Remote Denial Of Service vulnerability in HP Instant Toptools 5.04

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
hp
nessus
exploit available

Summary

hpnst.exe in the GoAhead-Webs webserver for HP Instant TopTools before 5.55 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a request to hpnst.exe that calls itself, which causes an infinite loop.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Hp
1

Exploit-Db

descriptionHP Instant TopTools 5.0 Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability. CVE-2003-0169. Dos exploit for windows platform
idEDB-ID:22447
last seen2016-02-02
modified2003-03-31
published2003-03-31
reporterErik Parker
sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/22447/
titleHP Instant TopTools 5.0 - Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

Nessus

NASL familyCGI abuses
NASL idHP_INSTANT_TOPTOOLS_DOS.NASL
descriptionThe remote host has the CGI
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id11520
published2003-04-06
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2003-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/11520
titleHP Instant TopTools hpnst.exe CGI DoS

Packetstorm

data sourcehttps://packetstormsecurity.com/files/download/30959/DDI1012.txt
idPACKETSTORM:30959
last seen2016-12-05
published2003-04-01
reporterDigital Defense Inc.
sourcehttps://packetstormsecurity.com/files/30959/DDI1012.txt.html
titleDDI1012.txt