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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0007018 | Kali Linux | [All Projects] Kali Package Bug | public | 2021-01-30 12:31 | 2021-02-18 14:35 |
| Reporter | shubhanshu | Assigned To | sbrun | ||
| Priority | urgent | Severity | major | Reproducibility | sometimes |
| Status | closed | Resolution | unable to reproduce | ||
| Product Version | 2020.4 | ||||
| Target Version | Fixed in Version | ||||
| Summary | 0007018: Powershell empire does not work after upgrade. | ||||
| Description | After apt dist-upgrade powershell-empire fails to start with following error: user@ap0calypse:~$ sudo powershell-empire [sudo] password for user: [*] Loading stagers from: /usr/share/powershell-empire/lib/stagers/ Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/powershell-empire/./empire", line 1924, in <module> main = empire.MainMenu(args=args) File "/usr/share/powershell-empire/lib/common/empire.py", line 133, in __init__ self.stagers = stagers.Stagers(self, args=args) File "/usr/share/powershell-empire/lib/common/stagers.py", line 52, in __init__ self.load_stagers() File "/usr/share/powershell-empire/lib/common/stagers.py", line 79, in load_stagers spec.loader.exec_module(mod) File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 790, in exec_module File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 228, in _call_with_frames_removed File "/usr/share/powershell-empire/lib/stagers/windows/backdoorLnkMacro.py", line 13, in <module> from xlutils.copy import copy File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/xlutils/copy.py", line 7, in <module> from xlutils.filter import process,XLRDReader,XLWTWriter File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/xlutils/filter.py", line 10, in <module> import xlrd,xlwt File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/xlwt/__init__.py", line 5, in <module> from .Row import Row File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/xlwt/Row.py", line 9, in <module> from . import ExcelFormula File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/xlwt/ExcelFormula.py", line 8, in <module> from . import ExcelFormulaParser, ExcelFormulaLexer File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/xlwt/ExcelFormulaLexer.py", line 53, in <module> _re = recompile( File "/usr/lib/python3.9/re.py", line 252, in compile return _compile(pattern, flags) File "/usr/lib/python3.9/re.py", line 304, in _compile p = sre_compile.compile(pattern, flags) File "/usr/lib/python3.9/sre_compile.py", line 764, in compile p = sre_parse.parse(p, flags) File "/usr/lib/python3.9/sre_parse.py", line 958, in parse p.state.flags = fix_flags(str, p.state.flags) File "/usr/lib/python3.9/sre_parse.py", line 925, in fix_flags raise ValueError("cannot use LOCALE flag with a str pattern") ValueError: cannot use LOCALE flag with a str pattern | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | sudo powershell-empire | ||||
| Additional Information | Recently I upgraded my system and python upgraded from python 3.8 - python 3.9. Since then powershell-empire does not work. | ||||
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I don't reproduce this issue with a basic installation. I noticed that you have at least on Python module in /usr/local/lib/python3.9. You can try to remove this module xlwt so that the Kali packaged module will be used instead of the manually installed version. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-30 12:31 | shubhanshu | New Issue | |
| 2021-01-30 12:31 | shubhanshu | File Added: Screenshot from 2021-01-30 18-01-35.png | |
| 2021-02-03 14:31 | sbrun | Assigned To | => sbrun |
| 2021-02-03 14:31 | sbrun | Status | new => feedback |
| 2021-02-03 14:31 | sbrun | Note Added: 0014195 | |
| 2021-02-18 14:35 | sbrun | Status | feedback => closed |
| 2021-02-18 14:35 | sbrun | Resolution | open => unable to reproduce |