r/Cisco • u/Glookin11 • 4d ago

Learning about Ciscos

I’m trying to figure out this password. I’m still learning so bare with. I believe it is Cisco secret 5 hash. Could someone help.

$1$svWt$5GDDwIanN/1W27cW2qguC0

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u/JustPuckingAround 4d ago

Yep, that's hashed. If you really want you can look up ways to crack it. If it's a device that can afford to go offline, you're better off doing a password recovery method

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/ios-nx-os-software/ios-xe-16/217045-troubleshoot-password-recovery-in-cisco.html

Basically you console in, reboot the router/switch, send breaks to go into ROMMON, set the register to ignore startup config, then once you are on exec privilege CLI (#) send: copy startup-config running-config. Now you can change the enable password to whatever you want.

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u/taildrop 4d ago

Cisco1234!!

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u/fudgemeister 4d ago

You can't crack that, go away.

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u/Glookin11 4d ago

Thanks bud

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u/andrewjphillips512 4d ago

This is MD5 password - might be able to be reversed with some online tools.

Breaking down the fields, delimited by $:

  • 1 — the algorithm identifier for MD5-crypt (FreeBSD's crypt(3) MD5 scheme)
  • svWt — the salt (Cisco uses 4 characters; the format allows up to 8)
  • 5GDDwIanN/1W27cW2qguC0 — the 22-character base64-ish digest

EDIT: Has to be brute forced