COMMAND
NeoPlanet
SYSTEMS AFFECTED
Those running NeoPlanet browser
PROBLEM
James J. Capone found following. Per viewing the Directory
structure of the NeoPlanet browser, James found that it caches and
saves all the email you send and or reply and or receive, in plain
text on the harddrive. It saves the email in a directory called
_tempe it is a Subdirectory in the NeoPlanets Main directory.
Each email you send, respond to, or receive is easily read from
any computer in any text editor I.E. Notepad or Word Pad. Each
email saved as a Numbered text file. Example:
0001.txt
0002.txt
0003.txt etc...
This email contains all the information in it. The entire header
of the email, text, the To: CC: Subject and From. So if you get
email with sensitive information in it, like passwords and more,
it can be read in any area. Also if someone creates an exploit
that sees the name of the browser as being "NEOPLANET" then it
can attempt to DL all the .txt file in this directory into a
private server to be read later. This is only noticed in the
Version 5.0 of Neo Planet. Also if you are on a network with a
shared drive, the World Per-Say could read all of your emails.
SOLUTION
Unknown as of now, The only thing I can think of is to maybe do a
read-only on the directory. This is also bad for people on a
Network/ Intranet with shared Public access to their computers.