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DefaultCreds cheat sheet

One place for all the default credentials to assist the Blue/Red teamers identifying devices with default password šŸ›”ļø

From ihebskiĀ·Updated June 17, 2026Ā·View on GitHubĀ·

**One place for all the default credentials to assist pentesters/blue Teamers during engagements, featuring default login/password details for various products sourced from multiple references.** The project is written primarily in Python, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2021. It has gained significant community traction with 6,613 stars and 777 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: blueteam, blueteam-tools, blueteaming, bugbounty, cheatsheet.

Latest release: creds-v0.5.3

Default Credentials Cheat Sheet

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One place for all the default credentials to assist pentesters/blue Teamers during engagements, featuring default login/password details for various products sourced from multiple references.

P.S : Most of the credentials were extracted from changeme,routersploit and Seclists projects, you can use these tools to automate the process https://github.com/ztgrace/changeme , https://github.com/threat9/routersploit (kudos for the awesome work)

  • Project in progress

Motivation

  • One document for the most known vendors default credentials
  • Assist pentesters during a pentest/red teaming engagement
  • Helping the Blue teamers to secure the company infrastructure assets by discovering this security flaw in order to mitigate it. See
    OWASP Guide [WSTG-ATHN-02] - Testing_for_Default_Credentials

Short stats of the dataset

Product/VendorUsernamePassword
count371137113711
unique139811211680
topOracle<blank><blank>
freq235814479

Sources

Installation & Usage

The Default Credentials Cheat Sheet tool is available on pypi

bash
$ pip3 install defaultcreds-cheat-sheet $ creds search tomcat
Operating SystemTested
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Manual Installation
bash
$ git clone https://github.com/ihebski/DefaultCreds-cheat-sheet $ pip3 install -r requirements.txt $ cp creds /usr/bin/ && chmod +x /usr/bin/creds $ creds search tomcat

Creds script

Usage Guide

bash
# Search for product creds āž¤ creds search tomcat +----------------------------------+------------+------------+ | Product | username | password | +----------------------------------+------------+------------+ | apache tomcat (web) | tomcat | tomcat | | apache tomcat (web) | admin | admin | ... +----------------------------------+------------+------------+ # Update records āž¤ creds update Check for new updates...šŸ” New updates are available 🚧 [+] Download database... # Export Creds to files (could be used for brute force attacks) āž¤ creds search tomcat export +----------------------------------+------------+------------+ | Product | username | password | +----------------------------------+------------+------------+ | apache tomcat (web) | tomcat | tomcat | | apache tomcat (web) | admin | admin | ... +----------------------------------+------------+------------+ [+] Creds saved to /tmp/tomcat-usernames.txt , /tmp/tomcat-passwords.txt šŸ“„

Run creds through proxy

bash
# Search for product creds āž¤ creds search tomcat --proxy=http://localhost:8080 # update records āž¤ creds update --proxy=http://localhost:8080 # Search for Tomcat creds and export results to /tmp/tomcat-usernames.txt , /tmp/tomcat-passwords.txt āž¤ creds search tomcat --proxy=http://localhost:8080 export

Proxy option is only available from version 0.5.2

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Pass Station

noraj created CLI & library to search for default credentials among this database using DefaultCreds-Cheat-Sheet.csv.
The tool is named Pass Station (Doc) and has some powerful search feature (fields, switches, regexp, highlight) and output (simple table, pretty table, JSON, YAML, CSV).

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Contribute

If you cannot find the password for a specific product, please submit a pull request to update the dataset.<br>

Disclaimer

For educational purposes only, use it at your own responsibility.

Contributors

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This article is auto-generated from ihebski/DefaultCreds-cheat-sheet via the GitHub API.Last fetched: 6/18/2026