Encoding problem in cortexutils

[albertogordillo]

Request Type

Bug

Work Environment

Question	Answer
OS version (server)	Ubuntu
OS version (client)	Windows
Cortex Version	1.1.2

Problem Description

After upgrading from cortexutils 1.0 to 1.1.0 some analyzers stop working with observables that previously worked.

MaxMind GeoIP:
Error: Invalid output {"artifacts": [{"type": "ip", "value": "8.8.8.8"}], "full": {"city": {"geoname_id": 5375480, "confidence": null, "name": "Mountain View", "names": {"ru": {"input": {"dataType": "ip", "config": {"max_tlp": 3, "check_tlp": false, "service": ""}, "tlp": 0, "data": "8.8.8.8"}, "errorMessage": "Invalid IP address", "success": false}

Msgparser:
"errorMessage": "Unexpected Error: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xed' in position 115: ordinal not in range(128)", "success": false}

Trying to identify the problem I executed the analyzer directly:
./geo.py <<< '{"tlp":0,"dataType":"ip","data":"8.8.8.8","config":{"check_tlp":false,"max_tlp":3,"service":""}}'
And it worked.

Possible Solutions

The error message in Msgparser is related with encoding. Checking analyzers.py I saw a line commented #self.__set_encoding() that in cortexutils 1.0 was not commented. After removing the comment the analyzers worked again.