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Let me save you the suspense; the Switch 2 won't get hacked

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olembet said:
quoted and be back 7-10 years later, ps5 :bow: or when switch 3 announced
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I'll see you guys here in 10 years.

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mohammed91 said:
this is the real person gezine is well knonw

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dude, you just said
mohammed91 said:
that was my first comment and i do some research and its a entry point
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Seems like you "did your research" a bit too late ^^



On another note, genuine question for
xadra said:
truth is, the exploit is from a renown person in the homebrew scene (not referring to the person reposting the video). And could be promising in the future, but right now, it does nothing.
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What do you mean by "it does nothing right now, but could be promising in the future"? I think it was during the Wii U or the 3DS era, that we had some exploit that were a bit useless alone, but when using with other exploit, would allow CFW execution. Is that ROP exploit a bit the same thing? Or more like "We know it can be used to do something big, but we just don't know how to use it properly as of now"?
 
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Noctosphere said:
What do you mean by "it does nothing right now, but could be promising in the future"? I think it was during the Wii U or the 3DS era, that we had some exploit that were a bit useless alone, but when using with other exploit, would allow CFW execution. Is that ROP exploit a bit the same thing? Or more like "We know it can be used to do something big, but we just don't know how to use it properly as of now"?
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It means a userland exploit allows unsigned code execution with user permissions, as in we're still inside the walled garden. A dev should be able to explore the user allowed API functions at his leisure now. If by these means security issues are found between the seams of the different security levels of the system, those would most likely be reported to Nintendo through the bug hunting platform for cash or recognition.

At this point, nobody knows if it can be used to do something big, and that also depends on your definition of big. The only information to be extracted out of this is a piece of the Switch 2 software was susceptible to ROP. That's it. This specific chain is VERY likely to be patched, if it's not patched already.

It's fair for other users to claim nothingburger on this. Up to you to remain hopeful.
 
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Urbanshadow said:
It means a userland exploit allows unsigned code execution with user permissions, as in we're still inside the walled garden. A dev should be able to explore the user allowed API functions at his leisure now. If by these means security issues are found between the seams of the different security levels of the system, those would most likely be reported to Nintendo through the bug hunting platform for cash or recognition.

At this point, nobody knows if it can be used to do something big, and that also depends on your definition of big. The only information to be extracted out of this is a piece of the Switch 2 software was susceptible to ROP. That's it. This specific chain is VERY likely to be patched, if it's not patched already.

It's fair for other users to claim nothingburger on this. Up to you to remain hopeful.
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Thanks for explanation. Last thing, is it that same exploit that allowed the "grey square gif" to be displayed on Switch 2 day 1 release?
 
Urbanshadow said:
It means a userland exploit allows unsigned code execution with user permissions, as in we're still inside the walled garden. A dev should be able to explore the user allowed API functions at his leisure now. If by these means security issues are found between the seams of the different security levels of the system, those would most likely be reported to Nintendo through the bug hunting platform for cash or recognition.

At this point, nobody knows if it can be used to do something big, and that also depends on your definition of big. The only information to be extracted out of this is a piece of the Switch 2 software was susceptible to ROP. That's it. This specific chain is VERY likely to be patched, if it's not patched already.

It's fair for other users to claim nothingburger on this. Up to you to remain hopeful.
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The thing is its not like were working from scratch here.

The kernel's been busted open and extensively reverse engineered already. Hell we have shit from various leaks direct from Nintendo. Not a soul has found a bug in it So very likely this is the 360 all over again.

We got various userland entrypoints for days. Not a single one leads to a Kernel exploit. Well until 20 years later someone realized MS or their compiler shipped a bug that allows for it.
 
If it makes you sleep better at night not expecting anything then sure.

As someone who works in CyberSecurity and has lived as a gamer and hacking scene enthusiast since the 90s I can tell you with great certainty. No code is ever truly bug free and unhackable.

The way I see it is that there probably wasn't that much incitament to try finding any kernel exploits on Switch 1 since the RCM discovery blew the doors open so early.

With the Switch 2 the is much more incitament to find a kernel exploit since we have no RCM.
But sure it may not happen any time soon or even at all. But it's not for us to say. Time will tell.
 
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Givemesteak said:
If it makes you sleep better at night not expecting anything then sure.

As someone who works in CyberSecurity and has lived as a gamer and hacking scene enthusiast since the 90s I can tell you with great certainty. No code is ever truly bug free and unhackable.

The way I see it is that there probably wasn't that much incitament to try finding any kernel exploits on Switch 1 since the RCM discovery blew the doors open so early.

With the Switch 2 the is much more incitament to find a kernel exploit since we have no RCM.
But sure it may not happen any time soon or even at all. But it's not for us to say. Time will tell.
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it always does
 
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Givemesteak said:
If it makes you sleep better at night not expecting anything then sure.

As someone who works in CyberSecurity and has lived as a gamer and hacking scene enthusiast since the 90s I can tell you with great certainty. No code is ever truly bug free and unhackable.

The way I see it is that there probably wasn't that much incitament to try finding any kernel exploits on Switch 1 since the RCM discovery blew the doors open so early.

With the Switch 2 the is much more incitament to find a kernel exploit since we have no RCM.
But sure it may not happen any time soon or even at all. But it's not for us to say. Time will tell.
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This a thousand times, but some people here are really not willing to give into reason.


I can even understand pessimism of a public hack that would enable CFW being likely in the near future. But 'never' is such an absolute claim, only someone with basically zero technical knowledge could even make such an assertion. At this point this thread's primary purpose is rooting out people not worth listening to on technical subjects.
 
For as much as this latest ROP exploit is done differently from the one that could be done at Day 1, the fact is, it's an exploit to gain something already established, and nothing has really been done or reported to progress beyond that. That's the problem that people aren't really seeing. Instead of moving from point A to B, it's moving from point AA to B, yet we are still waiting on something to get from point B to C.
 

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