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Abyss Web Server Plaintext Administrative Password Vulnerability

Abyss Web Server is a freely available personal web server. It is maintained by Aprelium Technologies and runs on Microsoft Windows operating systems, as well as Linux.

The administrative password for Abyss Web Server is stored in plaintext in the configuration file. If a local attacker can read the configuration file, they can trivially gain administrative access to the web server.

Additionally, BugTraq ID 4466 "Abyss Web Server File Disclosure Vulnerability" describes an issue which may also enable remote attackers to trivially disclose the contents of the Abyss Web Server configuration file.

This issue was reported for Abyss Web Server for Microsoft Windows operating systems. It is not known whether the Linux version is also affected by this vulnerability.