ciscoPWDhasher

An offline Cisco Password Hashing Tool for Cisco IOS/IOS-XE

Author: Brett Verney
Version: v1.1 | 27-11-2025

This script converts a plain text password into a Cisco 'secret' CLI hash. It currently supports Type 5 (MD5), Type 7 (XOR Cipher), Type 8 (PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256), and Type 9 (scrypt)

It is particularly useful in situations where an engineer wants to build a full CLI configuration file but doesn't want to list passwords in plain text, or does not have access to a Cisco device in order to generate the password hash.

Requirements

• Python 3.6+
• Python Libraries
  • passlib (for Type 5 and Type 7)
  • Standard library hashlib (used for Type 8 PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 and Type 9 scrypt)

Script Usage

Windows

python ciscoPWDhasher.py

MAC / OSX

python ./ciscoPWDhasher.py

Note: If you have both Python 2 and Python 3 installed you should run python3 ./ciscoPWDhasher.py

Linux

python ./ciscoPWDhasher.py

Note: If you have both Python 2 and Python 3 installed you should run python3 ./ciscoPWDhasher.py

Example

The script uses an interactive menu to help choose which hash type is required. An example is below:

Cisco CLI Configuration

Cisco IOS/IOS-XE

username <username> secret {5|7|8|9} <hash>
or
enable secret {5|7|8|9} <hash>

For example:
username admin secret 5 $1$gBk3$sBeTOYNqovq/iccFjqQoV0
or
enable secret 9 $9$OD7tNTjMffsK4T$x8y1enumMaDqfgNlFeI5z9KtEmiqxP90e5R632s1QNk

Special Thanks

Josh Schmelzle for helping me figure out Type 8 and Type 9 requirements.
Kyle Kowalczyk for basically turning this in to something usuable by systems and people other than just copy and paste script n00bz.