nikto plugin error

[lmcthbe]

Hi,

Processing of nikto 2.1.5 or 2.1.6 output xml file failed with the error below

Attached xml output file nikto-2.1.5.zip

Do you have any user guide for troubleshooting xml parsing issue of faraday plugin? It would be useful to have one.

Regards Thierry

2016-04-15 21:44:08,767 - faraday - INFO - Report file is /home/lmcthbe/.faraday/report/test/nikto-2.1.5.xml 2016-04-15 21:44:08,770 - faraday - INFO - Report type detected: xml 2016-04-15 21:44:08,773 - faraday - INFO - The file is /home/lmcthbe/.faraday/report/test/nikto-2.1.5.xml, nikto 2016-04-15 21:44:08,774 - faraday - INFO - Executing ./nikto /home/lmcthbe/.faraday/report/test/nikto-2.1.5.xml 2016-04-15 21:44:08,967 - faraday.CouchDbConnector - DEBUG - Saving document in couch db 2016-04-15 21:44:08,986 - faraday.CouchDbConnector - DEBUG - Saving document in couch db 2016-04-15 21:44:09,037 - faraday - DEBUG - PluginController (139713150082256) - Created plugin_process (139713139300496) for plugin instance (139713150081744) 2016-04-15 21:44:09,047 - faraday - DEBUG - ---------------------------------------- 2016-04-15 21:44:09,049 - faraday - DEBUG - proc_name = PluginProcess-2 2016-04-15 21:44:09,049 - faraday - DEBUG - Starting run method on PluginProcess 2016-04-15 21:44:09,050 - faraday - DEBUG - parent process: 31921 2016-04-15 21:44:09,050 - faraday - DEBUG - process id: 5296 2016-04-15 21:44:09,051 - faraday - DEBUG - ---------------------------------------- 2016-04-15 21:44:09,051 - faraday - DEBUG - PluginProcess-2: New Output 2016-04-15 21:44:09,053 - faraday - DEBUG - Plugin Error: Nikto, (5cfe682f866ac961ac46e0eae659c88bd84b25a6) 2016-04-15 21:44:09,053 - faraday - DEBUG - Plugin raised an exception: 2016-04-15 21:44:09,054 - faraday - DEBUG - Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/lmcthbe/Downloads/faraday-dev/plugins/core.py", line 817, in run self.plugin.parseOutputString(output) File "/home/lmcthbe/.faraday/plugins/nikto/plugin.py", line 310, in parseOutputString parser = NiktoXmlParser(output) File "/home/lmcthbe/.faraday/plugins/nikto/plugin.py", line 55, in init self.hosts = [host for host in self.get_hosts(tree)] File "/home/lmcthbe/.faraday/plugins/nikto/plugin.py", line 80, in get_hosts for host_node in tree.find('niktoscan').findall('scandetails'): AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'findall'

2016-04-15 21:44:09,055 - faraday - DEBUG - PluginProcess-2: Exiting 2016-04-15 21:44:09,055 - faraday - INFO - Plugin finished: Nikto, (5cfe682f866ac961ac46e0eae659c88bd84b25a6) 2016-04-15 21:44:09,056 - faraday - DEBUG - (PluginController) _processAction - 3000 - parameters = [] 2016-04-15 21:44:09,059 - faraday - DEBUG - (PluginController) _processAction - 3001 - parameters = [] 2016-04-15 21:44:09,095 - faraday - DEBUG - _processAction - 3000 - parameters = () 2016-04-15 21:44:09,096 - faraday.ModelController - INFO - Plugin Started 2016-04-15 21:44:09,099 - faraday - DEBUG - Action code 3000 failed. Parameters = () 2016-04-15 21:44:09,102 - faraday - DEBUG - _processAction - 3001 - parameters = () 2016-04-15 21:44:09,105 - faraday.ModelController - INFO - Plugin Ended

[joaquinlpereyra]

Hello @lmcthbe. We're trying to debug this now. Thanks for reporting the issue!

[lmcthbe]

Doing the change below fix the issue

Regards Thierry

76 def get_hosts(self, tree): 77 """ 78 @return items A list of Host instances 79 """ 80 # for host_node in tree.find('niktoscan').findall('scandetails'): 81 for host_node in tree.findall('scandetails'): 82 yield Host(host_node)

[lmcthbe]

Look into it and I can send a new Pull Request if you like

[Ezequieltbh]

We have a fix, you do not need to do a pull request. I was going to send a patch right now: p In the next version, this will be resolved.

Thank you for your report and the fix. Regards