Hacking New Switch 2 Userland Exploit found

Fyrus · 2026-07-21T13:30:33+0100

Sayora said:
Sorry for likely being painfully uninformed, but Im still curious. How come userland is not seen as particularly useful? Does it just not have the potential to be turned into any kind of homebrew? Because I remember on 3ds and Wii U there exploits that, while not allowing true cfw, did at least allow some form of homebrew to be launched, like homebrew games/emulators/etc. Was that not userland? It wouldnt be cfw sure, but I would personally think that would be some kind of major progress. Or is userland on the Switch 2 just that locked down to be able to do anything similar? Thanks!

I think it's also that the Switch/2 runs pretty much everything sandboxed, which wasn't the case of the 3DS/WiiU

TPMJB · 2026-07-21T14:48:05+0100

Sayora said:
Sorry for likely being painfully uninformed, but Im still curious. How come userland is not seen as particularly useful? Does it just not have the potential to be turned into any kind of homebrew? Because I remember on 3ds and Wii U there exploits that, while not allowing true cfw, did at least allow some form of homebrew to be launched, like homebrew games/emulators/etc. Was that not userland? It wouldnt be cfw sure, but I would personally think that would be some kind of major progress. Or is userland on the Switch 2 just that locked down to be able to do anything similar? Thanks!

AFAIk Userland lacks pretty much all useful privileges to the system. There was a Userland exploit I think 8 hours after release. It's largely a nothingburger.

Edit: Apparently the original method was a Userland ROP exploit that did nothing on its own. This is slightly more promising...

...slightly

Hacking New Switch 2 Userland Exploit found

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