(SOLUTION)IMPACKET ERROR MS17–010
Greetings Everyone,
If you are reading this post, it seems you are struggling with the famous
“no module named impacket” error when exploiting ms17–010. It is a
common vulnerability which you will have to face while solving machines
from hackthebox, tryhackme or oscp labs.
Without wasting your time, I will give you the solution which worked for me
after trying and giving up on different steps suggested on hack the box forums, medium articles, reddit, and oscp forums.
The error happens because, even after using “pip install impacket”, your system shows that “requirement already satisified”, but, when you execute it, it shows the same error, as impacket is by default getting installed in python3.
The exploit runs using python 2.7 , which makes things hard.
So, Immediate solution for that is to use python2.7 virtual environment which will run install and run impacket in python2.7 and you are ready to go.
If you never heard of virtual environments, dont worry, i will guide you with 3 simple steps which will save you for now. But, make sure to do your own recon on this topic.
STEP1:
sudo apt install virtualenv
STEP2:
Virtualenv — python=python2 env
STEP3:
source env/bin/activate
pip install impacket
Now , you can run your exploit.
I hope it worked for you.
If it worked, I am glad, and spend some time to share this article with others to help them, and give some claps if you liked it.
