PS5 Exploit Guide

Davide6 · May 17, 2026

ps5 HV and ps5 etahen are two different things.. etahen definitely does not contain HV exploit, for that you need ps5-hen.elf which is on the front page of this thread.

I will also emphasize that PS5 HV and PS5 fpkg are also different things. For some things you need a real ps5 fpkg. I think you need ps5 fpkg to make the game work on your internal drive

I read that HV does not bring much benefit so I don't know if it is true

madbrainx · May 17, 2026

Silla79 said:
Am I thinking correctly that for my slim on 11.70, the hopes are we will get one of the following:

Is 11.70 a typo for 12.70? There’s no 11.70 firmware, and Poopsploit only works up to 12.00.

Adamos_22 said:
will be drive still be paired or need to reinistialed again ?

Factory resetting, or powering on with the BD drive disconnected, will unpair all manually paired Slims (those shipped with firmware below 8.00) and all PS5 Pros. It’s still unclear whether factory-paired Slims are affected as well.

By the way, I ran ddd pair dumper yesterday on my recently jailbroken CFI-21xx Slim on fw 11.40 and got this interesting FACTORY_PAIRED_TO_ANOTHER result.

--- Stage 4: GET_PAIRING_STATUS (0xC<OMITTED>) ---
status: 0x00000000
state: 6 (FACTORY_PAIRED_TO_ANOTHER)
[with cert+nonce]
status: 0x00000000
state: 5 (FACTORY_PAIRED)

Also kind of surprised to see temps 10–15% lower than on both of my CFI-1200 FATs.

I’ve opened both my PS3 and PS4 before for thermal paste, but liquid metal feels a lot riskier and I’m honestly not keen on messing it up. Still, I might have to deal with it eventually. Both consoles are fine for now, but the difference in temps is a bit worrying. I also don’t really trust local techs with it since they might just update the firmware out of habit during servicing. It would be great if a homebrew app could monitor temps and alert on spikes or unusually high readings.

Anyway, I’m pretty happy with the past week’s releases. Finally got my third, and hopefully last, PS5 jailbroken, and even got Linux running on my 6.02.

Tom8823 · May 17, 2026

Davide6 said:
ps5 HV and ps5 etahen are two different things.. etahen definitely does not contain HV exploit, for that you need ps5-hen.elf which is on the front page of this thread.

I will also emphasize that PS5 HV and PS5 fpkg are also different things. For some things you need a real ps5 fpkg. I think you need ps5 fpkg to make the game work on your internal drive

I read that HV does not bring much benefit so I don't know if it is true

I have other games such as Tony hawk 1+2 which works perfectly fine from internal drive and it's just dump, not fpkg. So I'm clueless why some games work and some refuse to start

Silla79 · May 17, 2026

madbrainx said:
Is 11.70 a typo for 12.70? There’s no 11.70 firmware, and Poopsploit only works up to 12.00.

Woops! Nope, wrong key: 11.40

evil24 · May 17, 2026

Tom8823 said:
I have other games such as Tony hawk 1+2 which works perfectly fine from internal drive and it's just dump, not fpkg. So I'm clueless why some games work and some refuse to start

The good thing about HV is that you have access to the entire console without needing KStuff. That said, the current version of HV isn't polished enough, and many PS5 games won't even boot.

And the issue you mention with Astro Bot is probably due to the number of files. Games with a huge number of files can cause problems when loaded from the internal drive. Try using the ffpkg format (especially for Astro Bot) or exFAT.

zebrone · May 17, 2026

Theone5000 said:
NP and good to hear. Enjoy your 5.10 system.

Post automatically merged: May 17, 2026

For Saros. Yes, for 5.xx. There's also a exFAT that contains the backport.
Nothing for Monster Hunter Stories 3 Twisted Reflection. Works on 11.xx and higher

It seems Saros needs day1 patch for other audio languages. I ve not tried but red on discord.
Im on lack of space on PS5...

HS2005 · May 17, 2026

zebrone said:
It seems Saros needs day1 patch for other audio languages. I ve not tried but red on discord.
Im on lack of space on PS5...

The Exfat works on 10.01 without any sound issues. I'm just using the English lang, but there are like many others:

Code:

Voice : English, Arabic, French (France), Spanish, German, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Italian
Displayed languages : English, Arabic, Danish, Finnish, French (France), Spanish, Dutch, German, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Swedish, Italian

Davide6 · May 17, 2026

KiiWii said:
FW Ranges:
10.20-12.00 = KEX + Kstuff = PS4/5 backups, no HV (LUA)
12.02-12.70 = No Public KEX (P2JB)
13.XX = No KEX/HEN/Kstuff/HV (LUA)

Highest known HV exploit: 4.51 HERE
Highest theoretical HV exploit: 5.XX (Flatz)

To change:
12.02-12.70 = KEX + Kstuff = PS4/5 backups, no HV

Highest known HV exploit: 6.02
Highest theoretical HV exploit: 7.61 (TrustedSecretSourceKiiWii??)

Kernel (KEX):
Highest public Release: 12.70

MaybeNewWebkit: 1-13.20, maybe highter?

@KiiWii How about updating the article? This came to mind, but it's up to you.

KiiWii · May 17, 2026

Davide6 said:
To change:
12.02-12.70 = KEX + Kstuff = PS4/5 backups, no HV

Highest known HV exploit: 6.02
Highest theoretical HV exploit: 7.61 (TrustedSecretSourceKiiWii??)

Kernel (KEX):
Highest public Release: 12.70

MaybeNewWebkit: 1-13.20, maybe highter?

@KiiWii How about updating the article? This came to mind, but it's up to you.

Done.

I’m sure I’ve missed heaps, I’ve been away this weekend.

xalfie · May 17, 2026

the fw 10.20 maybe is possible without extra lua games.

enomao94 · May 17, 2026

Davide6 said:
To change:
12.02-12.70 = KEX + Kstuff = PS4/5 backups, no HV

Highest known HV exploit: 6.02
Highest theoretical HV exploit: 7.61 (TrustedSecretSourceKiiWii??)

Kernel (KEX):
Highest public Release: 12.70

MaybeNewWebkit: 1-13.20, maybe highter?

@KiiWii How about updating the article? This came to mind, but it's up to you.

I dont get it, you dont need lua now?

Davide6 · May 17, 2026

enomao94 said:
I dont get it, you dont need lua now?

of course Lua is not needed, on fw 4.51 it is possible webkit

enomao94 · May 18, 2026

Davide6 said:
of course Lua is not needed, on fw 4.51 it is possible webkit

Oh ok its about fw then i still need lua for 11.60 xd

solitaire4eva · May 18, 2026

xalfie said:
the fw 10.20 maybe is possible without extra lua games.

10.20 with no game exploit would need Y2JB + P2JB.
Should be able to unpatch BD with that exploit. Then can user BDJB+poops

So first time 2 hours to jailbreak. Then patch BD. If no BD, then 2 hours every time you want to jailbreak...

Damn I'm not complaining but it's a lot of Userlands to keep track off.

lufeig · May 18, 2026

Arakon said:
Not anymore. Shadowmountplus allows you to have the backports in a seperate folder without overwriting any of the game files.

could you please explain in what folder I should save the backports to not have to overwrite the original files?

i couldn't find it, even on the github readme page.

Ethelbert · May 18, 2026

Davide6 said:
Highest known HV exploit: 6.02

2.50-bros, are we toast?

Memes, aside, do PS4 game patches work on 4.51 with PS4HEN?
Can you just push EtaHEN after PS4HEN for example?

Deleted member 681324 · May 18, 2026

Ethelbert said:
2.50-bros, are we toast?

Memes, aside, do PS4 game patches work on 4.51 with PS4HEN?
Can you just push EtaHEN after PS4HEN for example?

Asking the same... @KiiWii you know? Debating to update my fattie to 4.xx

shano · May 18, 2026

HawaiianInTown said:
Asking the same... @KiiWii you know? Debating to update my fattie to 4.xx

Or you can go to 3.00 instead.

madbrainx · May 18, 2026

Offsets for Linux on other 5.xx released

flopsy · May 18, 2026

Was the full 30th Anniversary Themes dumped and does anyone have them?

I remember @Marc_LFD asked about it, and this - https://nitter.catsarch.com/notnotzecoxao/status/1864359462745546797#m

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