PS5 Jailbreak: The status in 2022
There is no publicly available Jailbreak for the PS5 as of January 2022. However, the PS4/PS5 hacking scene has given us good news at the end of 2021, which could open up the doors to homebrew on Sony’s new console in 2022.
PS5: No Jailbreak publicly available at the moment
Released in November 2020, the PS5 has been on the market for more than a year now, and it seemed the console was quite resilient against hackers. That was before Hacker TheFloW, and hacker collective Fail0verflow almost simultaneously announced they had fully hacked the console, a few months ago.
First, TheFloW (famous for multiple hacks and tools for the PSP, PS Vita, and PS4) showed he had access to the Debug Settings of the PS5, indicating he has a kernel exploit for the console.
On the same day, Fail0verflow (known in particular for their work on the Wii and the PS3*) disclosed they had full kernel access to the PS5 and its decryption keys. They emphasized that their findings can be reproduced through software means (per opposition to hardware hacks).
Neither of the two groups has plans for a release of their work.
Which means that the PS5 Homebrew scene was left with only a bit of hope that “hacking the PS5 is indeed very possible”, but no idea as to when a release could or would happen.
PS5 Jailbreak in 2022? PS4 Hack compatible with the new generation
Hope sparked again when a new PS4 Jailbreak was released in December 2020. ZnullPtr, one of the developers working on the hack, stated that “the [PS4] Kernel exploit affects PS5 as well“, while precising that work on the PS5 was nowhere near ready. Chendochap, the main person behind the PS4 Jailbreak, does not have a PS5 (or at least, didn’t at the time of release of the PS4 hack).
This Kernel exploit, coupled with a Webkit exploit which impacts both the PS4 and PS5, could lead to a PS5 Jailbreak sooner than later, as all necessary ingredients are now publicly available.
It’s actually surprising that no more information has surfaced on this in the past month, given that everything needed is available, theoretically. It’s possible that the lack of availability of PS5s on the market has been slowing down hackers to some extent.
PS5 Jailbreak, what’s next?
If you own a PS5 and are hoping for a Jailbreak, there is one golden rule you have to follow: Do. Not. Update. The Webkit exploit and Kernel exploit have most likely been fixed in one of the recent firmwares. If you stay on a firmware that predates the release of these exploits, you’re most likely fine (21.02-04.02.00 sounds like it’s safe?). Beyond that (21.02-04.03.00 and beyond), all bets are off. In any case, stay on as low a firmware as you possibly can. The ideal situation being of course if you have a PS5 you can afford to not update at all.
Will 2022 bring us a PS5 Jailbreak? Nobody can predict the future of course, but it looks like all the stars are aligned to make it happen.
* Fail0verflow have also found significant vulnerabilities on the PS4 and Nintendo Switch, but have recently refrained from publicly releasing information until after the consoles were broken open by other groups.
Was wondering what was going on with this. Hopefully soon there will be one.
I can guarantee we will get one this year. The hackers already have a webkit exploit to work with, so it wont take as long to fully develop a kernel exploit
The article literally says its impossible to predict but here you are claiming you can guarantee one lol you cannot guarantee ***
That’s because he’s a massive di..ckhead!
First to say first!
THIIIIRDDD!!!!1!!!!
It’s hilarious that some kids actually believe this will ever happen to the ps5. Ps4 got jailbroken yeah but the damage was so tiny and insignificant that maybe not a single developer company lost 500k dollars, if even 100k and barely anyone knew about it.
WOW mate PS5 FIRMWARE 21.02-04.03.00. is the eqequivalent of the 9.00 ps4 kexploit but you say 21.02-04.03.00 firmware and beyond there no luck this is infact incorrect. Fail0verflow tweeted a picture of the hack clearly stating the firmware PS5 firmware hack 4.30. I own PS5 with 4.30 firmware I own ps4 with 9.00 now when I tried the hack on 9.00 worked like a charm now curious as I am I tried the Web hack with alasif’s webrowser on ps5 and got to the part please insert usb hence the Web hack work on my ps5 now because people where advising not to try usb hack because it could kill the ps5 because it hasn’t been tested I did not put in usb hack but needless to say I know the hack works for upto 4.30 PS5 firmware. However as curious as I am I was going to try it only a couple of days ago but oddly enough when trying to get to the usb on alasifs server I now keep getting out of memory error very odd indeed as when tried it on day1 of usb hack my PS5 was ready and willing to accept the usb hack I would like to inform people that the firmware 4.30 does is indeed exploitable so please DONT UPDATE
thanks for the info … I hope for a quick hack
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Jan 14
i was allowed to stir the pot so here it goes: something probably coming to 4.03 ps5
My name is Marshal Mathers and I’m officially declaring that Vladimir Putin is khuylo
2022 will be the year of the PS5 Jailbreak!
We need to be patient
Maybe it would be worth to start crowdfunding campaign to jailbreak PS5 🙂 I think community can pay more for exploit than Sony (10K $).
Imagine everyone paying 5$ – then it would require only 2000 supporters, and I’m sure there are way more of us 🙂
No
worst konsola ewer
The English is strong in this one.
luckly I dont have ps5 and xsx
Does anyone know how to delete a system update for the PS5 that hasn’t installed yet? I turned off the autoupdate stuff but it had already downloaded so now it just prompts me all of the time.
yea same here, don’t think u can get rid of it though sadly, just have to deal with it and hope u don’t accidentally update.
To delete the downloaded update, go to settings, then storage. Then push x, o, and square together while holding start and saying I am a tw.at over and over. Then take your ps5 and dump it in the trash.
My ps5 already updated itself so I hope for a hardware hack butt there are no real ps5 games out so I don’t care playing Skyrim a ps3 title on my PS5 its a shame Sony!!!!!
My ps5 already updated itself so I hope for a hardware hack butt there are no real ps5 games out so I don’t care playing Skyrim a ps3 title on my PS5 its a shame Sony!!!!!
Just as a side note: you can actually use PSN on older firmware, without updating the console. I tried contacting Sony about it, I got no response, so here I am making this public.
Not all things work and I have not tested everything. For example, I can’t launch some games (Deep Rock) as they require the latest firmware but I could install and play other games like Horizon Zero Dawn, Deathloop and Dirt 5.
How? If you got Resident Evil Village installed, just spam the Playstation Store option in the menu until it shows ya the available add-ons. Usually it pops the update console message a couple of times, hit update later and then retry. Sometimes it works from the first try, sometimes I had to try for a couple of minutes.
It might work with other games that allow you to acces PSN but I don’t have the necessary time nor a lot of games to test.
So here you go. If you want to buy/install some new games on a PS5 without Blu-ray but stay on an older firmware, this is your chance.
Whatever
Thank you for sharing !
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why do you always post random garbage?
following ps4-ring0 read …
and OpenTyrian ps4 pkg …
ps4-qemu-runtime-bca-xyz …
run ur pkg or fpkg on pc without hdd img
or without artificial imaged sys
these idiots in the comment section, smh
Possible Ps5 KE incomiing soon! ZnullPtr just hinted something for 4.3 fw
https://twitter.com/Znullptr