New PS5 kernel exploit lets anyone run Kojima’s PT

Hackers are making the rounds of the PS5 Almost a year nowAnd it appears they’ve finally managed to jailbreak 2020 hardware with a new kernel-level exploit. Originally discovered on PS4. While it doesn’t allow access to run certain types of code, the exploit has made it possible for at least one person to run Kojima’s Silent Hill demo prequel, PTOn their PS5, more people will explore jailbreak which will have massive implications.

The PS5 IPV6 kernel exploitDiscovered last month by “PlayStation hacking god” Andy “TheFloW” Nguyen, now there’s a way to implement. tweeted over the weekend By hacker specterdev. It relies on a previously known vulnerability in the PS5’s Web browser technology, Webkit, which also works on PS5s running firmware 4.03 and earlier.

The exploit works by having the PS5 access a web server on a local computer that has Spectredev’s hack implementation. It apparently works about 30 percent of the time, giving users access to the console’s debug mode, allowing them to run software outside of what Sony originally intended.

Here’s a demonstration of the new exploit tweeted yesterday:

“This exploit gives us read/write access, but not execution.” Console hacking blog Wololo.net. “This means that it is not possible to load and run binaries at this time, everything is restricted within the bounds of the ROP chain. The current implementation is running debug settings.”

Even so, early exploitation was still adequate Dark Souls Archaeologist Lance McDonald found an abandoned PS4 micro-horror game PTOfficially Lacking Backwards Compatibility on PS5:

The IPV6 WebKit exploit was discovered by TheFloW on PS4 two years ago. He found it again on the PS5 and reported to Sony in January 2022. “It looks like their patch somehow got back when migrating FreeBSD11 to FreeBSD9,” he said said recently motherboard. TheFloW later received a $10,000 reward from Sony and company Vulnerability revealed On September 20, 2021 on the HackerOne site.

Since then, others in the PlayStation hacking community have been working on ways to exploit the vulnerability to jailbreak the disc-based PS5 and all its digital equivalents. Console manufacturers try to lock down their systems in part to prevent theft, and today’s jailbreak could be just the beginning of hackers poking holes in that security. Sony did not immediately respond to a request for comment.