Issue with running Caldera on Kali

[barelyaveragedev]

Summary:

When installing caldera on the Kali 2024.4 post updating and upgrading, I encounter the below errors when running the caldera command:

Errors and Screenshots:

Text Output of error encountered:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/caldera/server.py", tine 8, in
import aiohttp_apispec
File "/usr/1ib/python3/dist-packages/aiohttp_apispec/ init .py", line I, in
from .aiohttp_apispec import AiohttpApispec, setup_aiohttp_apispec
File "/usrAib/python3/dist-packages/aiohttp_apispec/aiohttp_apispec.py", line 10, in
from apispec . ext .marshmallow import MarshmallowP1ugin, common
File "/usrAib/python3/dist-packages/apispec/ext/marshma110w/ init .py", line 85, in
from .openapi import OpenAPIConverter
File "/usr/1ib/python3/dist-packages/apispec/ext/marshma110w/openapi .py", line 28, in
from . field_converter import FieldConverterMixin
File "/usrAib/python3/dist-packages/apispec/ext/marshma110w/fie1d_converter.py", line 41, in
marshmallow. fields .IP: ("string" ,
AttributeError: module 'marshmallow. fields' has no attribute 'IP'

Steps to replication of issue:

1. Fresh installation of Kali Linux
2. sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade ran
3. sudo apt install caldera command ran and completed without error
4. cd to /user/share/caldera
5. run caldera command
6. error displayed.

Steps attempted to remediate issue:

1. Python version checked: 3.11.9
2. Pip version checked: 24.1.1
3. pip install aiohttp: completed successfully
4. pip install marshmallow: returned requirement already satisfied.

Any assistance and advice on what I am doing wrong would be appreciated.

[github-actions]

Looks like your first issue -- we aim to respond to issues as quickly as possible. In the meantime, check out our documentation here: http://caldera.readthedocs.io/

[elegantmoose]

Thats odd. The only thing I can think of is if you have multiple python environments and the wrong one is being used.

And you also checked that aiohttp_apispec is right version?

c/p from Caldera requirements.txt:

aiohttp==3.9.3
aiohttp_session==2.12.0
aiohttp-security==0.4.0
aiohttp-apispec==3.0.0b2

[cfzq088]

NodeJS v16 or later (for Caldera v5)
GoLang 1.17+ (for optimal agent functionality)
Maybe you should check whether you have installed npm and Go-lang in Kali, then run the command again.

[barelyaveragedev]

Hi all,

I'm sorry for the delay.

So I checked for other virtual environments using the command locate -b '\\activate' | grep "/home" , but I couldn't find any evidence of other virtual environments.

I then ran the commands to check the versions of the various aiohttp requirements, and the below was outputted:

I then checked the NodeJS, NPM and GoLang versions installed:

I then reinstalled caldera using sudo apt install caldera, but I received the same error message:

[mgonzcast]

In my case using Kali 2024.2 I am getting the following error when starting caldera:

Configuration error:
There is a programmable error in your configuration file:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sphinx/config.py", line 509, in eval_config_file
    exec(code, namespace)  # NoQA: S102
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/var/lib/caldera/plugins/fieldmanual/sphinx-docs/conf.py", line 28, in <module>
    import_plugin_docs(caldera_root_dir, sphinx_root_dir)
  File "/var/lib/caldera/plugins/fieldmanual/sphinx-docs/../../../plugins/fieldmanual/utils/plugin_docs.py", line 24, in import_plugin_docs
    doc_paths = copy_plugin_docs(caldera_root_dir, sphinx_root_dir)
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/var/lib/caldera/plugins/fieldmanual/sphinx-docs/../../../plugins/fieldmanual/utils/plugin_docs.py", line 51, in copy_plugin_docs
    copied_files = copy_tree(plugin_docs_dir, sphinx_plugin_dir)
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/var/lib/caldera/plugins/fieldmanual/sphinx-docs/../../../plugins/fieldmanual/utils/plugin_docs.py", line 17, in copy_tree
    before = set(glob.iglob(f"{dst}/**", recursive=True))
                 ^^^^
NameError: name 'glob' is not defined

[elegantmoose]

@mgonzcast what python version are you using?

[elegantmoose]

@barelyaveragedev I missed this the first time but I wouldnt use apt to install Caldera. We only recommend cloning directly from the repo. See README.

[elegantmoose]

reopen if still having issues