From 60b3a5d3d0e8acd2ec3b46cc447d247ab49ced2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mrx <brainly8a@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:45:47 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] SSH: catch TimeoutError during login with a clean fail
 message

plaintext_login() only caught AuthenticationException and SSHException
before falling through to the generic Exception handler, which logs via
logger.exception() and dumps a full traceback. A connection timing out
mid-login is routine on a target sweep, not something that needs a stack
trace, and smb.py already treats TimeoutError this way elsewhere in the
codebase.

Fixes #358
---
 nxc/protocols/ssh.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/nxc/protocols/ssh.py b/nxc/protocols/ssh.py
index 57d0f7148c..4d80582802 100644
--- a/nxc/protocols/ssh.py
+++ b/nxc/protocols/ssh.py
@@ -134,6 +134,8 @@ def plaintext_login(self, username, password, private_key=""):
                 self.logger.error(f"Internal Paramiko error for {username}:{process_secret(password)}, {e}")
             else:
                 self.logger.exception(e)
+        except TimeoutError:
+            self.logger.fail(f"{username}:{process_secret(password)} Connection timed out")
         except Exception as e:
             self.logger.exception(e)
             self.conn.close()