Python - AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'SSL_ST_INIT'

Some python scripts and other programs are throwing this error

Code:

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  from OpenSSL.SSL import Error, ZeroReturnError, WantReadError
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/OpenSSL/__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
    from OpenSSL import rand, crypto, SSL
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/OpenSSL/SSL.py", line 105, in <module>
    SSL_ST_INIT = _lib.SSL_ST_INIT
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'SSL_ST_INIT'

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Upon my research, Google is full of post with other users experiencing same error with all types of python scripts. Majority of posts direct user to verify pyOpenSSL version is latest ( Which I've done ) and this fixes most of the users issues.

I've implemented all suggestions I've found pertaining to this issue, with no luck what so ever.

Can any one point me in the right direction?

Here is some info

Latest version of Kali, updated daily via apt-get

Code:

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pyOpenSSL==16.2.0
OpenSSL 1.1.0c  10 Nov 2016
Python 2.7.13

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Thanks,

https://github.com/mwrlabs/drozer/pull/241

So, you need to upgrade PyOpenSSL from 0.15 to 16.2

he already have 16.2.0 if you look at his post!

I've found this on the github issues site of "OWTF" but it is related to the same problem, someone reported that it wasn't fixed after upgrading pyOpenSSL to 16.2
so give it a try :D

Code:

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pip install virtualenv virtualenvwrapper
source '/usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh'
echo 'source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh' >> ~/.zshrc (or ~/.bashrc if use bash)
mkvirtualenv owtf -p /usr/bin/python2.7
apt-get update;apt-get upgrade;apt autoremove;apt-get update;apt-get dist-upgrade;
pip install -U --trusted-host pypi.douban.com -i http://pypi.douban.com/simple beautifulsoup4 lxml Markdown pexpect psycopg2 pyOpenSSL PyVirtualDisplay rdflib selenium six SQLAlchemy tornado

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I know that this is not a clean solution, but I don't know which package fixed it. ;)

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Originally Posted by vu4rac0d3

I've found this on the github issues site of "OWTF" but it is related to the same problem, someone reported that it wasn't fixed after upgrading pyOpenSSL to 16.2
so give it a try :D

Code:

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pip install virtualenv virtualenvwrapper
source '/usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh'
echo 'source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh' >> ~/.zshrc (or ~/.bashrc if use bash)
mkvirtualenv owtf -p /usr/bin/python2.7
apt-get update;apt-get upgrade;apt autoremove;apt-get update;apt-get dist-upgrade;
pip install -U --trusted-host pypi.douban.com -i http://pypi.douban.com/simple beautifulsoup4 lxml Markdown pexpect psycopg2 pyOpenSSL PyVirtualDisplay rdflib selenium six SQLAlchemy tornado

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I know that this is not a clean solution, but I don't know which package fixed it. ;)

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Thanks for the replies.

When attempting to do what you have suggested, I immediately run into an error while running

Code:

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pip install virtualenv virtualenvwrapper

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Code:

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pip install virtualenv virtualenvwrapper
Requirement already satisfied: virtualenv in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages
Collecting virtualenvwrapper
  Using cached virtualenvwrapper-4.7.2.tar.gz
Could not import setuptools which is required to install from a source distribution.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 387, in setup_py
    import setuptools  # noqa
  File "/usr/share/python-wheels/setuptools-32.3.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/setuptools/__init__.py", line 10, in <module>
    from setuptools.extern.six.moves import filter, filterfalse, map
  File "/usr/share/python-wheels/setuptools-32.3.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/setuptools/extern/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from pkg_resources.extern import VendorImporter
ImportError: No module named 'pkg_resources.extern'

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I then did some research the error aboveCould not import setuptools . Which many posts suggest to reinstall / upgrade setuptools, Where I also ran into another issue :mad:

Code:

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pip install -U setuptools             
Requirement already up-to-date: setuptools in ./dist-packages
Requirement already up-to-date: six>=1.6.0 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from setuptools)
Requirement already up-to-date: appdirs>=1.4.0 in ./dist-packages (from setuptools)
Requirement already up-to-date: packaging>=16.8 in ./dist-packages (from setuptools)
Requirement already up-to-date: pyparsing in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from packaging>=16.8->setuptools)

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All seems well and up to date.... I've never had so many issues with python, and running into problem after problem. Looks like I need to do some more reading involving setuptools

I have recently switched to Oh My Zsh , Could this of been the causing these issues?


Once again, appreciate all the feedback.