CVE-2001-0790

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2001-10-18 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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 Ids: 4.5, 5.0

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/win2ksecadvice/2001-q2/0071.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/win2ksecadvice/2001-q2/0071.html

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