broken report functionality in 45727ef commit

[Morpheme777]

Describe the bug
I get an error when trying to generate report:

2023-08-16 14:29:28 - ERROR (c_operation.py:323 report) Error saving operation report (basic scenario)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/caldera2/caldera/app/objects/c_operation.py", line 315, in report
    step_report['output'] = json.loads(results.replace('\\r\\n', '').replace('\\n', ''))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/json/__init__.py", line 346, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/json/decoder.py", line 337, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/json/decoder.py", line 353, in raw_decode
    obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Invalid \escape: line 1 column 17620 (char 17619)

To Reproduce

1. I don't actually know what exact ability calls an exception, but when I run operation with around 50 abilities, I get an error in generating report.

Expected behavior
Generatiing report without issues

Screenshots
I just get an error in log and nothing in UI.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Kali linux
• Browser Edge
• Version Caldera 4.2.0

Additional context
I've found the root of issue. The commit 45727ef in c_operation.py broke the functionality due to removing try..except.. structure from code.

[elegantmoose]

@Morpheme777 Which commit? That link is broken for me or rather doesnt show the commit.

[Morpheme777]

sory, my bad.
correct link: 45727ef

first comment was fixed too

[elegantmoose]

Fix coming.

[elegantmoose]

@Morpheme777 I might have been confusing your bug with another one but we did just push this patch (mitre/debrief#67) to Debrief plugin and bumped the version of the reportlab lib the report generator uses.

If you can, pull latest master from Caldera repo, and then cd into the /plugins/debrief plugin and pull its master branch as well. (eventually we will repin debrief to current version but we like to wait and do all the plugins at once we repinning)

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[Morpheme777]

I'm newbie in git, so I actually didn't understand what exactly I need to do=)
I found a bug, specified the reason of that behavior and if I understand right the bug has nothing to do with plugins at all. As you can above in the description of the bug, the error appears in file /opt/caldera2/caldera/app/objects/c_operation.py

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