Exploit failed: undefined method `each_module' for... Error for some metasploit modules when using latest update

[0x0OZ]

Steps to reproduce

Make sure to use latest update of metasploit, from kali:

apt update -y
apt upgrade -y

open metasploit and try to run this module with the default configs

msfconsole
use multi/browser/chrome_cve_2021_21220_v8_insufficient_validation
run

Note: Same exploit was running fine with same configuration before doing update on both an old and latest iso of kali

Expected behavior

The exploit should work fine as it was before running the update

Current behavior

Syntax error with some ruby module

Metasploit version

Framework: 6.3.55-dev
Console : 6.3.55-dev

Additional Information

Module/Datastore

The following global/module datastore, and database setup was configured before the issue occurred:

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[framework/ui/console]
ActiveModule=exploit/multi/browser/chrome_cve_2021_21220_v8_insufficient_validation

[multi/browser/chrome_cve_2021_21220_v8_insufficient_validation]
WORKSPACE=
VERBOSE=false
EnableContextEncoding=false
ContextInformationFile=
DisablePayloadHandler=false
SRVHOST=0.0.0.0
SRVPORT=8080
ListenerBindAddress=
ListenerBindPort=
ListenerComm=
SSL=false
SSLCert=
SSLCompression=false
SSLCipher=
SSLVersion=Auto
TCP::max_send_size=0
TCP::send_delay=0
URIPATH=
HTTP::no_cache=false
HTTP::chunked=false
HTTP::header_folding=false
HTTP::junk_headers=false
HTTP::compression=none
HTTP::server_name=Apache
URIHOST=
URIPORT=
SendRobots=false
LHOST=192.5.5.4
LPORT=4444
ReverseListenerBindPort=
ReverseAllowProxy=false
ReverseListenerComm=
ReverseListenerBindAddress=
ReverseListenerThreaded=false
StagerRetryCount=10
StagerRetryWait=5
AutoLoadStdapi=true
AutoVerifySessionTimeout=30
InitialAutoRunScript=
AutoRunScript=
AutoSystemInfo=true
EnableUnicodeEncoding=false
HandlerSSLCert=
SessionRetryTotal=3600
SessionRetryWait=10
SessionExpirationTimeout=604800
SessionCommunicationTimeout=300
PayloadProcessCommandLine=
AutoUnhookProcess=false
MeterpreterDebugBuild=false
MeterpreterDebugLogging=
PingbackRetries=0
PingbackSleep=30
PayloadUUIDSeed=
PayloadUUIDRaw=
PayloadUUIDName=
PayloadUUIDTracking=false
EnableStageEncoding=false
StageEncoder=
StageEncoderSaveRegisters=
StageEncodingFallback=true
PrependFork=false
PrependSetresuid=false
PrependSetreuid=false
PrependSetuid=false
PrependSetresgid=false
PrependSetregid=false
PrependSetgid=false
PrependChrootBreak=false
AppendExit=false
MeterpreterTryToFork=false

Database Configuration

The database contains the following information:

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Session Type: postgresql selected, no connection

History

The following commands were ran during the session and before this issue occurred:

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0      use multi/browser/chrome_cve_2021_21220_v8_insufficient_validation
1      options
2      run
3      sudo run
4      run
5      id
6      debug

Framework Errors

The following framework errors occurred before the issue occurred:

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[02/12/2024 10:16:14] [e(0)] core: Failed to connect to the database: No database YAML file
[02/12/2024 10:16:32] [e(0)] core: Exploit failed (multi/browser/chrome_cve_2021_21220_v8_insufficient_validation) - NoMethodError undefined method `each_module' for [["x64/simple", Msf::Modules::Nop__X64__Simple::MetasploitModule]]:Array
Did you mean?  each_slice
[02/12/2024 10:16:36] [e(0)] core: Exploit failed (multi/browser/chrome_cve_2021_21220_v8_insufficient_validation) - NoMethodError undefined method `each_module' for [["x64/simple", Msf::Modules::Nop__X64__Simple::MetasploitModule]]:Array
Did you mean?  each_slice
[02/12/2024 10:16:41] [e(0)] core: Exploit failed (multi/browser/chrome_cve_2021_21220_v8_insufficient_validation) - NoMethodError undefined method `each_module' for [["x64/simple", Msf::Modules::Nop__X64__Simple::MetasploitModule]]:Array
Did you mean?  each_slice

Web Service Errors

The following web service errors occurred before the issue occurred:

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msf-ws.log does not exist.

Framework Logs

The following framework logs were recorded before the issue occurred:

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[02/12/2024 10:16:14] [e(0)] core: Failed to connect to the database: No database YAML file
[02/12/2024 10:16:32] [e(0)] core: Exploit failed (multi/browser/chrome_cve_2021_21220_v8_insufficient_validation) - NoMethodError undefined method `each_module' for [["x64/simple", Msf::Modules::Nop__X64__Simple::MetasploitModule]]:Array
Did you mean?  each_slice
[02/12/2024 10:16:36] [e(0)] core: Exploit failed (multi/browser/chrome_cve_2021_21220_v8_insufficient_validation) - NoMethodError undefined method `each_module' for [["x64/simple", Msf::Modules::Nop__X64__Simple::MetasploitModule]]:Array
Did you mean?  each_slice
[02/12/2024 10:16:41] [e(0)] core: Exploit failed (multi/browser/chrome_cve_2021_21220_v8_insufficient_validation) - NoMethodError undefined method `each_module' for [["x64/simple", Msf::Modules::Nop__X64__Simple::MetasploitModule]]:Array
Did you mean?  each_slice

Web Service Logs

The following web service logs were recorded before the issue occurred:

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msf-ws.log does not exist.

Version/Install

The versions and install method of your Metasploit setup:

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Framework: 6.3.55-dev
Ruby: ruby 3.1.2p20 (2022-04-12 revision 4491bb740a) [x86_64-linux-gnu]
OpenSSL: OpenSSL 3.1.4 24 Oct 2023
Install Root: /usr/share/metasploit-framework
Session Type: postgresql selected, no connection
Install Method: Other - Please specify

[daniruiz]

Reverting this change in lib/msf/core/encoded_payload.rb fixed it
2cf045d#diff-04259b28321bf8503bd140edb1f74b5c1b8be1f43ce0253880e06671b41a6b53R345