home-assistant-libs / home-assistant-libs/python-nmap

"-d" output broken

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Description

When using PortScanner() with arguments "-O -d" the XML isn't parsed correctly and breaks

The suggested work around is call get_nmap_last_output() without the "-d" tag but that information doesn't include the fingerprints I'm after

Any help would be appreciated

This is particularly relevant to resolving the Windows 11 os fingerprint, as it generates a unique one every time so I'd like to analyze the output fingerprint that seems to only appear using the debugging tag (-d)

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Start at the PortScanner() handling for the "-O -d" arguments and reproduce the XML parsing failure. Compare this with get_nmap_last_output() and inspect how the debugging output contains the requested OS fingerprints. Done means debugging output is parsed without breaking and the fingerprints remain available to callers.

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Tech stack
python
Domain
networking
Issue type
Bug
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3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
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