An interesting list of AMD vulnerabilities (could some of those have been used in the PS5 hacks?)
The scene has been speculating a lot lately on what kind of vulnerabilities hackers TheFloW and fail0verflow have been using in their groundbreaking PS5 hacks (discussed here and here, respectively).
All eyes are turned on AMD specific vulnerabilities, given that the PS5 uses an AMD chipset.
AMD have recently published a laundry list of vulnerabilities impacting their server-specific EPYC processors. The list of more than 20 critical vulnerabilities is the result of multiple reports from security researchers at Microsoft, Google and Oracle (it also didn’t escape the scene’s attention that the security engineer from Oracle who worked on some of those vulnerabilities, Volodymyr Pikhur, was a prominent PS4 hacker not so long ago).
The vulnerability list is specifically for AMD Server processors though (EPYC series), and it’s unclear how much is shared between those and the PS5 CPU. The PS5 uses a custom AMD CPU based on Zen 2, on which the second EPYC generation is based as well.
It’s not certain that all or any of these vulnerabilities impact the PS5 architecture. Furthermore, the list has only been revealed recently, and at a quick glance, no exploit PoC have been published yet. So if hackers leveraged any of these vulnerabilities to exploit the PS5, it probably means they would have found about the vulnerabilities independently.
There are other AMD processor vulnerabilities however, some of which have been made public to some extent. We’ve discussed one of them here in September, which used voltage fault injection attacks to leak information.
The level of risk of the vulnerabilities varies of course. Some of them seem to be specific to Windows drivers. Others look “dangerous” but the security researchers haven’t been able to demonstrate actual information leaks.
Fail0verflow have stated their exploit was performed through software means. At the moment, there is no indication if, and when, TheFloW or Fail0verflow will publish their findings.
For the latest status on PS5 hacks, check our PS5 Jailbreak page.
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That would mean, xbox can be hacked too right?
anything and everything can be hacked some things just easier, because of either lots of possible attack points or because of existing exploits that are known like in this thread the amd ones and well then you have to learn a bit about the system how it works and so on and then you modify it like a hen or even a cfw if possible(kernel exploit or higher privillege). Well and then there is systems especially made to not be hacked/jailbroken,which doesnt mean they will never be hacked or can’t be.Just means that it could take a unbelivable amount of work and there for time and probably even money. Hope i could carify it to you..
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PS4?
PS5 , latest manual update PUP seams to no longer be available on the official website…
I hope sony will mpatch this toomoorow
Wouldn’t this also potentially affect the zbox series x|s as well?
Possibly. It depends on the exploit and what type of attack in needed and on what sector/input/etc.
If they used, same gen chips on the same architecture (say one a 3700x and another a 3900x) then most likely yes, it would mean that.
However both use customer chips that were made by different teams and each company had input on what they deemed more important (if they both used the same chips, their performances would be mostly identical, however they aren’t. And in some cases it’s not even close.
Also these aren’t your standard Zen chips. They are considered APU’s (not soc like many say as soc in entire system in a chip. Both have a mobo still. They are just a cpu/gpu together) having said that, the zen apus to come out thus far are best on Vega. These apus however are based on the new 6000 series. Aka they are the first chips of their kind, and they aren’t even indenticao to each other.
So the likely answer? Possibly but most likely no as they were manufactured by diff teams at the same time
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just wait 10 years or buy ps4 7.55