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LookupError: unknown encoding: idna
See original GitHub issueI get an exception when scanning some targets using targets file. When scanning these targets manually, it works fine.
I’m using the ssh-audit.exe in Version 2.5 on a Windows 10 VM.
For me it looks like to be an issue of missing import: import encodings.idna
An exception occurred while scanning 10.2xx.xx.xx:22: Traceback (most recent call last): File “ssh-audit.py”, line 1017, in target_worker_thread File “ssh-audit.py”, line 842, in audit File “ssh_socket.py”, line 155, in connect File “ssh_socket.py”, line 85, in _resolve File “socket.py”, line 953, in getaddrinfo LookupError: unknown encoding: idna
An exception occurred while scanning 10.2xx.xxx.xx:22: Traceback (most recent call last): File “ssh-audit.py”, line 1017, in target_worker_thread File “ssh-audit.py”, line 842, in audit File “ssh_socket.py”, line 155, in connect File “ssh_socket.py”, line 85, in _resolve File “socket.py”, line 953, in getaddrinfo LookupError: unknown encoding: idna
An exception occurred while scanning 10.2xx.xxx.xx:22: Traceback (most recent call last): File “ssh-audit.py”, line 1017, in target_worker_thread File “ssh-audit.py”, line 842, in audit File “ssh_socket.py”, line 155, in connect File “ssh_socket.py”, line 85, in _resolve File “socket.py”, line 953, in getaddrinfo LookupError: unknown encoding: idna
An exception occurred while scanning 10.2xx.xx.xx:22: Traceback (most recent call last): File “ssh-audit.py”, line 1017, in target_worker_thread File “ssh-audit.py”, line 842, in audit File “ssh_socket.py”, line 155, in connect File “ssh_socket.py”, line 85, in _resolve File “socket.py”, line 953, in getaddrinfo LookupError: unknown encoding: idna
An exception occurred while scanning 10.2xx.xxx.xx:22: Traceback (most recent call last): File “ssh-audit.py”, line 1017, in target_worker_thread File “ssh-audit.py”, line 842, in audit File “ssh_socket.py”, line 155, in connect File “ssh_socket.py”, line 85, in _resolve File “socket.py”, line 953, in getaddrinfo LookupError: unknown encoding: idna
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@kastahl Thanks for testing, much appreciated.
This confirms my suspicion that the problem relates to multithreading and appears only to affect the Windows executable version of ssh-audit.
Please leave this ticket open because although we now have a workaround (which is to avoid multiple threads), there is still a bug that needs to be fixed properly.
Thanks for helping with this, @thecliguy. I’ll investigate this further next time I do testing on my Windows machine.