Metasploit-framework: Ascii-8bit to UTF-8 encoding in smb/psexec

[Mussu999]

Steps to reproduce

set smbuser järvalv
set smbpass whatever
set rhost 192.168.1.10
run

Current behavior

Im getting failure due the character "ä" in smbuser
Exploit failed [no-access]: Rex::Proto::SMB::Exceptions::loginError Login Failed: "\xC3" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8

Version

4.17.23-dev on kali

I installed Metasploit with:

Came with Kali

What OS are you running Metasploit on?
Kali

Anyone have any idea how to fix this? Ive been trying for few days but cant seem to get it fixed. I guess i have to change encoding somewhere but where? And without breaking anything else..

[bwatters-r7]

Hrm..... I thought I fixed this a long time ago. Can you give a little more info. What OS/language are you using?

[Mussu999]

Hrm..... I thought I fixed this a long time ago. Can you give a little more info. What OS/language are you using?

lsb_release -a
Kali 2019.1

locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
and all the rest are en_US.UTF-8

Basically everything is like default kali install except input source is finnish.

I also updated the metasploit to 5.0.5-dev and the same thing happens.

[Torxed]

Still an issue 2020.

Exploit failed [no-access]: Rex::Proto::SMB::Exceptions::loginError Login Failed: "\xC3" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8

When logging in to a Swedish locale machine where the admin account is Administratör and the whole underlaying OS is in Swedish.

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[Torxed]

I mean, yea we still want this open heh.

[adfoster-r7]

@Torxed Thanks for keeping this issue alive! :+1:

We've updated the issue template a bit since this ticket was raised, we've also released Metasploit 6 which made changes to SMB support. It'd be great to verify if this is still an issue, and if so - seeing a stacktrace could help us greatly.

If you're able to run through these steps with a new version of Metasploit and provide the result to us, that would be great!

https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/025950ec0b8454da30b040f9a9798e1dd17d6705/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.md#additional-information

[Torxed]

@adfoster-r7 Awesome, I can give this a try next week. I think I still have a few boxes in a VM setup that runs non-us locale :)