How To Find Mikrotik Winbox Password

In this video we talk about How To Find Mikrotik Winbox Password : MikroTik&WinBox stores the user&cleartext password in a configuration file when the Keep Password option is selected. Specifically, the password is stored in a file called settings.cfg.viw in Winbox&AppData/Roaming directory. The full path is C:UsersUSERNAMEAppDataRoamingMikrotikWinboxsettings.cfg.viw The username and password can be found appended to the keywords login and pwd respectively. An attacker that gains access to this file can use it to pivot to the router. Solution This issue affects all known versions of WinBox. However, to mitigate this issue, MikroTik suggests using WinBox&"Set Master Password" functionality.