PS5 Exploit Guide

KiiWii · Feb 23, 2026

I’m hearing that a second dev has achieved HV exploitation apart from FlatZ.

I won’t say more yet…

smf · Feb 23, 2026

Wolf85 said:
Don't forget about the scalpers who inflate those "sales" numbers. The might have a had a shortage of consoles at launch but the pawnshops have a surplus now.

These are two independent things.

Sony has shipped 92 million PS5's. The scalpers made money because they knew how to get round buying limits, or even place orders before the general public. They inflated the price that you had to pay to get a PS5, they didn't increase the total number sold. There aren't even 1% of all ps5's sold in pawnshops.

There was a perfect storm of lock down and stimulus checks, that meant people were prepared to pay the scalpers.
I don't think that it would happen again (and didn't seem to on the ps5 pro, except the anniversary edition).

zebrone · Feb 23, 2026

KiiWii said:
I’m hearing that a second dev has achieved HV exploitation apart from FlatZ.

I won’t say more yet…

On which firmware?

FortalezaG · Feb 23, 2026

goc86 said:
Why you use .ffpkg, you can use .exfat image format.
.exfat image is nearly same size as unpacked game and works like charm with kstuff-lite+shadowmountplus

Example of size:
Astro Bot unpacked size is 148gb
Astro Bot .exfat image size is 152gb

Even games that required external hdd to run, runs on internal ps5 disk without any issue if you make .exfat game image

How do you convert to .exfat?

solitaire4eva · Feb 23, 2026

zebrone said:
On which firmware?

He was like up to 7.60 but said most like affect 7.61 because it was patched in firmware 8.0

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smf said:
These are two independent things.

Sony has shipped 92 million PS5's. The scalpers made money because they knew how to get round buying limits, or even place orders before the general public. They inflated the price that you had to pay to get a PS5, they didn't increase the total number sold. There aren't even 1% of all ps5's sold in pawnshops.

There was a perfect storm of lock down and stimulus checks, that meant people were prepared to pay the scalpers.
I don't think that it would happen again (and didn't seem to on the ps5 pro, except the anniversary edition).

I got mines for $650 during covid with my stimilus check lol. Yeah that's not happening again. The new virus just gonna kill people I heard next round.

SPit8 · Feb 23, 2026

Blythe93 said:
I've updated the browser cache so that my etaHEN version updates from 2.3B to 2.4B and now my console fails to launch etaHEN toolbox for some reason. I'm on 5.00 and I have an SSD in the M.2 slot if that matters. I've tried sending the payload from my PC (my console and my PC are on the same network and PS5 is blocking updates and redirecting the User's Guide to the UMTX2 exploit website) but that fails as well. I've tried Payload Injector v1.4 and NetCat GUI v1.3 and the both freeze or say that my PS5 can't be reached so I'm not sure what to do anymore. Does anyone have any idea what I might be doing wrong?

EDIT: I've tried cleaning the cache and after a few retries still nothing. Interesting thing, though, is that I had 0 KPs which is really nice but makes me wonder if they fixed the stability over time, was I just that lucky or does the jailbreaking even works properly? I believe that it does since I do get access to debug tools, just not the toolbox.

After a while, I tried zeco's UMTX2 webkit exploit which has the latest etaHEN on it (2.5B) and... it works! Which is again weird but not that I'm complaining. I've been on 2.3B for a while, but at least now I can continue to test Y2JB to see if that will work better in my use case.

I'm still unable to send ELF payloads from my PC to the console. Both PC and the console are on the same network, both of them are using the custom DNS settings but I'm not sure if that's the issue. From what I understand, as long as they are on the same connection, they should be able to see each other.

EDIT#2: And yes, now it suddenly decided to work. Troubleshooting these issues isn't really an easy task for me. Hahahaha

I have also used UMTX2 till some days ago (I am on fw 5.50), but I always faced instabilities while loading etaHEN toolbox. I am not sure but I also felt that things became worse while upgrading to newer versions of etaHEN.
Then, after trying to find a workaround to make things more stable, I decided to setup Y2JB. I have not done too many tests but it looks more stable. And it has also the advantage that you can autoload payloads and it is more widely used and hence more tested.

xalfie · Feb 23, 2026

what advantage for the HV exploit, because for example in 10.00 other than the missing of the fpkg, I can perform all kind of operations... so ?

KiiWii · Feb 23, 2026

[PROBABLY TRASH]

Edit:

[ACTUAL TRASH]

Wolf85 · Feb 23, 2026

smf said:
These are two independent things.

Sony has shipped 92 million PS5's. The scalpers made money because they knew how to get round buying limits, or even place orders before the general public. They inflated the price that you had to pay to get a PS5, they didn't increase the total number sold. There aren't even 1% of all ps5's sold in pawnshops.

There was a perfect storm of lock down and stimulus checks, that meant people were prepared to pay the scalpers.
I don't think that it would happen again (and didn't seem to on the ps5 pro, except the anniversary edition).

If a scalper buys 1000 units at launch price, that's still 1000 units sold. It doesn't change the numbers because they resold them, but do keep making assumptions like that. The ones in the pawn shops are the ones that were already sold, so they were already counted at the time of the original sale. The prices changed because of the lack of availability and like they say, if you control the supply and the demand, you've got yourself a monopoly... don't forget about all those pirates robbing freight trains, that reduces the total number of retail sales.

goc86 · Feb 23, 2026

FortalezaG said:
How do you convert to .exfat?

The procedure is documented on ShadowMountPlus’s GitHub page

If you use win10/11:
install OSFMount
download shadowmountplus-main.zip
Unzip shadowmountplus-main
Run cmd run as admin
In cmd go to your destination of unziped shadowmountplus-main folder and write this for example:
make_image.bat "c:\your game name.exfat" "c:\your unpacked game destination folder"

solitaire4eva · Feb 23, 2026

xalfie said:
what advantage for the HV exploit, because for example in 10.00 other than the missing of the fpkg, I can perform all kind of operations... so ?

Just a webkit and bdjb access. There are so many ways to boot into a full jailbreak, losing them two don't really matter.

HS2005 · Feb 23, 2026

KiiWii said:
[ACTUAL TRASH]

We will see where this goes.... A Toolbox is not a KEX.
I'll save it and follow it

Hope this is not an random AI thing again...

KiiWii · Feb 23, 2026

Theone5000 said:
We will see where this goes.... A Toolbox is not a KEX. I'll save it and follow it

I think it’s bullshit, but I like to believe a webkit exploit exists for higher firmwares.

Edit:

All but confirmed as AI slop.

Rasa39 · Feb 23, 2026

I don't get this whole AI found haxx bs. What actually is it, just a webkit or something that pretends to be a full hack. Like it presents text menus as if it's doing something, but it's just bullshit, sorta thing?

xalfie · Feb 23, 2026

solitaire4eva said:
Just a webkit and bdjb access. There are so many ways to boot into a full jailbreak, losing them two don't really matter.

well, if is only that, I don't see the advantage of that. In 10.00 there is no webkit exploit, but y2jb works very good, sooo ? what am I missing with the HV ?

Wolf85 · Feb 23, 2026

xalfie said:
well, if is only that, I don't see the advantage of that. In 10.00 there is no webkit exploit, but y2jb works very good, sooo ? what am I missing with the HV ?

A hypervisor is a secure system within the operating system. A virtual machine if you will, that prevents any unauthorized activity on the hypervisor system. We can elevate the user privileges to bypass the virtual machine restrictions, but the other security chips outside of the virtual machine are still in place. I half expected the hypervisor exploit to lead to those security features being bypassed too, but it seems the privileges only elevate you to administrator inside the virtual machine and there is no access to the other security features. Then they claimed to have dumped the boot rom keys which could potentially open up the "bios" to disable the security features but I would expect they don't want to put all their eggs in the basket before the corporate man takes them.

KiiWii · Feb 24, 2026

xalfie said:
well, if is only that, I don't see the advantage of that. In 10.00 there is no webkit exploit, but y2jb works very good, sooo ? what am I missing with the HV ?

Afaik it’s just system stability after jailbreak.

Wolf85 · Feb 24, 2026

Well I just got the safe mode bug that requires reinstalling firmware. That requires recovery firmware and not the official update one correct?

sbga420 · Feb 24, 2026

Wolf85 said:
Well I just got the safe mode bug that requires reinstalling firmware. That requires recovery firmware and not the official update one correct?

What caused that?

Wolf85 · Feb 24, 2026

sbga420 said:
What caused that?

Retroarch. Couldn't get any of the cores to work and after shut down and reboot I have to reinstall firmware and start over from nothing. That's okay though, I'll play around with it some more and then likely update to 4.03

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