CVE-2003-0169: HP Instant Toptools

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 9.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• HP Instant Toptools: version 5.04 only

Published 2003-04-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.