Decrypt firefox's & chrome's saved passwords

Sat, 29 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Firefox

There are many tools available out there to decrypt firefox passwords, but we will using firefox_decrypt tool. Which is efficient and fast.

Steps:

First clone it to local system and cd into it.

git clone https://github.com/unode/firefox_decrypt.git 
cd firefox_decrypt

Here we have our script firefox_decrypt.py, execute it with -h option to get help menu.
```
python firefox_decrypt.py -h
```
Get all the available profiles using -l option.
```
python firefox_decrypt.py -l 
```
Decrypt passwords, use any format like json, tabular, human, etc.
```
python firefox_decrypt.py -f tabular
```
Select your profile number 1 / 2 / 3 …

And voila, you have your passwords.

There are tools too to decrypt google chrome’s password, and we will use decrypt-chrome-passwords

Steps:

First clone the repository to local and cd into it.

git clone https://github.com/ohyicong/decrypt-chrome-passwords
cd decrypt-chrome-passwords

Install dependencies
```
pip install -r requirements.txt
```
Decrypt passwords using decrypt_chrome_password.py.
```
python decrypt_chrome_password.py
```

And now, we have all the credentials.

We just saw how we can easily decrypt passwords from browser dumps, so now to avoid this kinds of thing we can secure our passwords using either ways

chrome doesn’t provide built-in feature of master/primary password.

So that’s it.