PS4 News: Fire30 releases WebKit exploit for PS4 FW 6.00-6.72 giving some hope to future developments
The new year has just begun in the vast majority of the world and to start 2020, we have some good news for PlayStation 4 owners. In this article, we’ll be looking at the release of a WebKit exploit by Fire30 for the console which supports FW 6.00-6.72.
PS4 News: Fire30 releases WebKit exploit for PlayStation 4 FW 6.00 to 6.72
Yet another WebKit exploit has dropped for the PlayStation 4, this time by Fire30
Compared to most other hacking scenes, the PlayStation 4 scene doesn’t see nearly as much love partly due to the scarcity of hacking solutions for newer firmwares and the low amount of interest in developing homebrew for it even though we got a RetroArch port for it a few days ago. However, from time to time, something on the ‘hacking new firmwares’-front comes up and this time, we have a WebKit exploit by Fire30.
This WebKit exploit, which is based upon a JavaScript vulnerability found as part of Project Zero in 2018, works on Firmwares 6.00-6.72 with Fire30 noting that Sony patched it in Firmware 7.00 meaning that the latest firmware isn’t vulnerable to it.
What does a WebKit exploit mean?
While FW 6.20 has had a public WebKit exploit for a while, a public kernel exploit is needed for a full hacking solution
While the release of a WebKit is exploit, it’s important to keep in mind the following:
- WebKit exploits don’t equate to anything tangible like a full/partial hacking solution to the end-user
- However, they are useful to developers as entry points in the initial steps of an exploit chain
- A kernel exploit is required in order to get the things currently available on FW 5.05/7 or lower
- It’s important to note that FW 6.00-6.20 have had a public WebKit exploit, by SpecterDev, since March and not much came out of that when it comes to end-user functionality
As a result, it’s important to keep in mind that this exploit will not suffice for a full hacking solution but it does give some hope for future PlayStation 4 hacking developments as some interest is still there.
Conclusion
The usual words of advice stay relevant here – Stay on the lowest firmware possible on your PlayStation 4 as that’s how you’ll get the best chance of a hacking solution/jailbreak! For more information about recent PS4 hacking developments, you may be interested in seeing Oct0xor‘s talk about code execution on the Blu-Ray drive.
Source code for Fire30’s Exploit (you may host it locally): https://github.com/Fire30/bad_hoist
5.55 here… I’m still waiting for a jailbreak… I hope for 2020, before the PS5 release
Buy my 5.05 it gets no love.
I’m still to
I wish the Xbox 1 can be exploited too, people are practically throwing them away nowadays. Imagine running Windows 10 or Linux on the X1X.
You’d be disappointed with that processor.
Nothing is like a PC for multitasking
Game pass has made it almost pointless to hack
Xbox one just got a retroarch/libretro port through dev mode. You just need to switch your xbone back and forth to play retail games.
@damnson dont need to hack it to run homerew. Literally just use the free link for dev program, enable dev mode, load your favorite uwp title.
I own 2 x ps4, bought the second one after growing tired of waiting. I hope I can put it too use soon. Later firmware of ps4 have many great games a hack would open up a great library for us. I don’t think Sony would be pleased by that. Perhaps after ps5 release, ps4 would get less attention by them and then hacking would be more interesting.
Cool but how about some news on FF7 demo back ported to 5.05! WOOOOHOOO!
people aren’t very interested in PS4 hacking, because the console is garbage. Sony is failing pretty big. their next console release is potentially going to be a make it or break deal for their future in gaming. i am not just saying this out of hate. Sony has been growing less popular for a reason. shoot… it might be something to do with all the missing features we should have… it might have something to do with even first party titles performing like ***… it MIGHT have something to do with all misconceptions Sony purposely creates around their products… IT MIGHT EVEN have something to do with the sub-par quality of their technology. the point is, Sony has long since dragged their own good name through the mud and it is going to be really difficult to get clean again.
i used to be a huge fan of PlayStation, but certainly won’t be buying the next-gen system.
lets hope that when the ps5 hits this year, some cool exploit will be released. v7+ of the ps4 firmware now officially supports ds4 / remote play on android/ios/macos/window so that’s cool. one can only hope.
I have a slim sitting on 5.55 for 1.5 years now and will not let it go 🙂
Same here, my is gonna sit as long as it takes 🙂
Have 2 PS4s on 505. One slim and One Pro. Had no idea they would become so rare, had I known I would have picked up more. They were literally just sitting around at Toys R Us back the days. Lesson is always get low firm systems as soon as xploits are public. You never know how hard they are to hack.