smb bruteforce is crashing

[YoanTLS]

Describe the bug When i use this command :

crackmapexec smb 192.1681.1 -u=user.txt -p=user.txt --no-bruteforce --continue-on-success

The bruteforce goes well with a majority of the accounts, except that at some point, CME crashes. I tried to remove the accounts from the list that could potentially crash CME, but it doesn't change anything.

I think I read that it could crash CME and that you should use the "u=" and "p=" parameters to prevent CME from crashing, but it doesn't seem to work too well. Any solution?

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/crackmapexec", line 8, in <module> sys.exit(main()) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cme/crackmapexec.py", line 254, in main asyncio.run( File "/usr/lib/python3.9/asyncio/runners.py", line 44, in run return loop.run_until_complete(main) File "/usr/lib/python3.9/asyncio/base_events.py", line 642, in run_until_complete return future.result() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cme/crackmapexec.py", line 102, in start_threadpool await asyncio.gather(*jobs) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cme/crackmapexec.py", line 68, in run_protocol await asyncio.wait_for( File "/usr/lib/python3.9/asyncio/tasks.py", line 442, in wait_for return await fut File "/usr/lib/python3.9/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 58, in run result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cme/protocols/smb.py", line 125, in __init__ connection.__init__(self, args, db, host) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cme/connection.py", line 62, in __init__ self.proto_flow() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cme/connection.py", line 98, in proto_flow if self.login() or (self.username == '' and self.password == ''): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cme/connection.py", line 235, in login for usr, f_pass in zip(user_file, password_file): File "/usr/lib/python3.9/codecs.py", line 322, in decode (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final) UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 3329: invalid continuation byte

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Crackmapexec info

• OS: Kali 2022.1
• Version of CME : 5.2.2

[mpgn]

Hello, your file is not utf-8 encoded this is why :)