CVE-2000-0179

HP OpenView OmniBack II 2.55 - Denial of Service via Port 5555 Connection Flood

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2000-0179. PoCs published by Jon Hittner.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This Perl script exploits a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in HP OpenView OmniBack by flooding port 5555 with multiple connections, causing the service to consume 100% CPU and crash. It sends a static string to each connection to trigger the issue.

Description

HP OpenView OmniBack 2.55 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large number of connections to port 5555.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED
by Jon Hittner · perldoswindows
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/19782

This Perl script exploits a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in HP OpenView OmniBack by flooding port 5555 with multiple connections, causing the service to consume 100% CPU and crash. It sends a static string to each connection to trigger the issue.

Classification
Working Poc 95%
Attack Type
Dos
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: HP OpenView OmniBack (tested on NT4.0 SP5, NT3.51, Winframe 1.7 SP5b, Winframe 1.8)
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Network access to target's port 5555
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Various Sources vendor-advisory x_refsource_hp
http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=HPSBUX0006-115
Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-02/0387.html
Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1015

Scores

EPSS 0.0970
EPSS Percentile 94.9%

Details

Status published
Products (3)
hp/openview_omniback_ii 2.55
hp/openview_omniback_ii 3.0
hp/openview_omniback_ii 3.1
Published Feb 28, 2000
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026