CVE-2001-0790: Specter Ids

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Specter IDS version 4.5 and 5.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (CPU exhaustion) via a port scan, which causes the server to consume CPU while preparing alerts.

Affected products

• Specter Specter Ids: version 4.5 only; version 5.0 only

Published 2001-10-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.