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Confusing Cisco enable password format

I'm totally confused by this Cisco password format:

enable password level 15 encrypted 382fda4a4a26e6637edac0eb8b8ba4581087d32d

Overall string is 40 bytes long:

$ echo -n 382fda4a4a26e6637edac0eb8b8ba4581087d32d | wc -c
  40

Example of configs with these hashes can be seen e.g. here.
No special characters except for [a-z0-9]. It does not fall under any of Type X Cisco password taxonomy (Types 0,4,5,7,8,9). Hashcat does not include any available cracking mode for it.

What kind of voodoo is that? Is it secure? Should I be worried that original password string may be recovered?