PS5 Exploit Guide

worm28 · Apr 20, 2026

worm28 said:
If you place kstuff.elf on your internal drive in data/etaHEN it will use that instead of the built in kstuff in etaHEN.

SonGoku78 said:
Is this a good idea anyway or could it lead to any problems like kstuff auto Pause not working etc?
My idea to use lite version was because it seems to be more stable.
Theoretically it should work like regular kstuff right? No downsides?

Thanks for the zip, but where is the source?
Has it any expiry date?
Why its not at the releases page on github?

Sorry could not find the source but supposedly the etaHEN 2.6b has no experation and placing kstuff.elf in data/etaHEN has no side effects it works perfect thats where it downloads it to from github in etaHEN settings. Oh and im using kstuff lite and its working perfectly.

BobaFett_UK · Apr 20, 2026

littlemisskittn said:
Just checked tonight after Wrestlemania and it's official. Mine doesn't have the timebomb. As you can see, my Star Wars download was from January and it's been offline since then. No DNS, no Wi-Fi, no Ethernet, nothing. Completely offline at 12.40. So, looks like I'm okay for now. Was planning to make it legit now that I have the slim, but for now, it's back to the original plan of waiting until Wolverine or GTAVI comes out to update. Or worse come to worse, I can get GTA VI on Xbox Series X. Here's hoping something can be done to chain Star Wars on 12.40.

EDIT: Before anyone asks, I erased my IP and Serials, so I do have a set, but since I'm posting this publicly, I had them erased from the picture before uploading.

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This kinda confirms somewhat that it's since mid March that it affects the game... however the so called acid test is if the console is hooked up to the internet using 127.0.0.1 or Nomadics DNS what will happen. Not that I'm asking you to do that lol. Totally staying off-line is the best thing to be doing in this case..

qamartheone · Apr 20, 2026

worm28 said:
Sorry could not find the source but supposedly the etaHEN 2.6b has no experation and placing kstuff.elf in data/etaHEN has no side effects it works perfect thats where it downloads it to from github in etaHEN settings. Oh and im using kstuff lite and its working perfectly.

every beta version of etahen has expiry date,so how can u be so sure?

Fcaust22 · Apr 20, 2026

Anyone know if there's anyone reputable offering the BD unpatching service in Australia somewhere?

KiiWii · Apr 20, 2026

“I noticed the recent PS5 HEN defeats XOTEXT by just disabling the NPT on all cores. This works, but it comes with a performance tradeoff, without NPT the HV seems to fall back to shadow page tables. Games seem to have 3x slower loads.

My solution is to just walk the nested CR3 and clear XOTEXT and set the RW flags. Gives essentially the same effect as the Bypervisor bug did with the QA flags. I'll make a PR on Cragson's repo once I get some time”

~ via OSM

worm28 · Apr 20, 2026

qamartheone said:
every beta version of etahen has expiry date,so how can u be so sure?

Im not sure sorry.

littlemisskittn · Apr 20, 2026

BobaFett_UK said:
This kinda confirms somewhat that it's since mid March that it affects the game... however the so called acid test is if the console is hooked up to the internet using 127.0.0.1 or Nomadics DNS what will happen. Not that I'm asking you to do that lol. Totally staying off-line is the best thing to be doing in this case..

I’m keeping it offline until either there’s a new hack or a DNS that can guarantee I won’t get a time bomb on lower firmware.

BobaFett_UK · Apr 20, 2026

TheStonedModder said:

This is by far one of the biggest risks with any console which has had it's drive manually paired. If for whatever reason you have a bad KP which also forces a console reset there is the risk you will lose that pairing. Suddenly your console which was previouly jailbroken with SWRR will become a bookcase end!

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littlemisskittn said:
I’m keeping it offline until either there’s a new hack or a DNS that can guarantee I won’t get a time bomb on lower firmware.

This is by far the best approach... even using ftp access you should use a hard wire between your pc and your console.... However, i'm thinking would blocking the console's MAC address in your router stop all internet trsffic in/out but will still allow local access to the console? Anyone tried this?

xalfie · Apr 20, 2026

about that BD pairing, is there any advance in order to backup that pairing and have it under our control ?

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ShintaiUS said:
I don't know about that, I have a vulnerable console now. It sounds like Sony is on the losing end now and I truly own the game(s), in fact I don't even need to download from their servers. How nice of me.

You don't own digital stuff guy. You should begin to understand it, and see if you should continue paying for vaporware.

SonGoku78 · Apr 20, 2026

BobaFett_UK said:
However, i'm thinking would blocking the console's MAC address in your router stop all internet trsffic in/out but will still allow local access to the console? Anyone tried this?

Yes, i wrote it already in the thread somewhere, just block mac on router and you still have internal Network functions without any internet communication.

BobaFett_UK · Apr 20, 2026

SonGoku78 said:
Yes, i wrote it already in the thread somewhere, just block mac on router and you still have internal Network functions without any internet communication.

Perfect! That’s reassuring to know. Probably is the best way going forward which will give 100% reassurance

Blythe93 · Apr 20, 2026

xalfie said:
about that BD pairing, is there any advance in order to backup that pairing and have it under our control ?

I've seen this posted in this thread:

Sadly, you can only make a backup but can't do much with it for now.

xalfie said:
You don't own digital stuff guy. You should begin to understand it, and see if you should continue paying for vaporware.

One of the reasons I bought Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers for my PS5 while it was cheap, just to have some sort of insurance if I ever decide to update my console's firmware or manage to get a PS5 Pro with an activated disc drive on a low enough firmware but... the chances of that are rather slim and the console itself is insanely expensive nowadays. My phat PS5 will have to do for a foreseeable future.

xalfie · Apr 20, 2026

Blythe93 said:
I've seen this posted in this thread:

Sadly, you can only make a backup but can't do much with it for now.

One of the reasons I bought Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers for my PS5 while it was cheap, just to have some sort of insurance if I ever decide to update my console's firmware or manage to get a PS5 Pro with an activated disc drive on a low enough firmware but... the chances of that are rather slim and the console itself is insanely expensive nowadays. My phat PS5 will have to do for a foreseeable future.

aham, interesting. Maybe with that backup we are able to restore it if the case of the lost pairing...

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With previous SSD Sata I use attached to back USB on the ps5 slim, I was able to obtain around 370MB/s R/W. With that speed I had temporal stuttering with only 2 games at the time. Now I increased that speed to the most near theoretical max speed of that SSD Sata that is 600MB/s but there is no drive that I know that overpass 550MB/s R/W when on internal using. Notice that one thing is theoretical max speed, and other very different is the real speed that can be obtain from internal ports and also from USB High Speed. The test was made with a little 64MB file and only one read on it. For sure speed is bigger with big test file. These are actual results:

The max theoretical speed from the best PS5 slim USB ports is 10Gbps that means 1.280MB/s. That is very far from the M.2 Gen 4 internal speeds. I don't think that the real speed with external M.2 reach neither 1.000 MB/s. A test is required here. But I go to say that M.2 no worth for external uses.

I expect an increase of the performance, specially on those games that had some temporal stuttering. We will see.

peteruk · Apr 20, 2026

xalfie said:
aham, interesting. Maybe with that backup we are able to restore it if the case of the lost pairing...

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With previous SSD Sata I use attached to back USB on the ps5 slim, I was able to obtain around 370MB/s R/W. With that speed I had temporal stuttering with only 2 games at the time. Now I increased that speed to the most near theoretical max speed of that SSD Sata that is 550MB/s R/W. Notice that one thing is theoretical max speed, and other very different is the real speed that can be obtained from USB High Speed. These are actual results:

The max theoretical speed from the best PS5 slim USB ports is 10Gbps that means 1.280MB/s. That is very far from the M.2 Gen 4 internal speeds. I don't think that the real speed with external M.2 reach neither 1.000 MB/s. A test is required here. But I go to say that M.2 no worth for external uses.

I expect an increase of the performance, specially on those games that had some temporal stuttering. We will see.

I personally find these results super interesting and thank you for posting them

Rasa39 · Apr 20, 2026

littlemisskittn said:
I’m keeping it offline until either there’s a new hack or a DNS that can guarantee I won’t get a time bomb on lower firmware.

Will nanoDNS help with that? I don't have SWRR, but with when I boot with internet access, even with my custom DNS blocking the servers, I would get popups about needing to update my system to use software features.

Then I used nanoDNS and set the DNS to the one it instructs and boom, no more popups. You can add extra domains to block in the config file it you want.

It runs locally on the console so I'd guess it's the best option, but I understand if you wanna wait for someone else to confirm it actually works, especially if you don't need to use internet for anything.

mattyxarope · Apr 20, 2026

BobaFett_UK said:
This is by far one of the biggest risks with any console which has had it's drive manually paired. If for whatever reason you have a bad KP which also forces a console reset there is the risk you will lose that pairing. Suddenly your console which was previouly jailbroken with SWRR will become a bookcase end!

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This is by far the best approach... even using ftp access you should use a hard wire between your pc and your console.... However, i'm thinking would blocking the console's MAC address in your router stop all internet trsffic in/out but will still allow local access to the console? Anyone tried this?

Tbh this advice should be DEFAULT for most users - if you're not using your FTP or updating some homebrew, there is no reason to have the internet connected to the PS5 (unless you're using an at home DNS blocking all PlayStation addresses AND the 127.0.0.1/2 DNS on your device). It's not worth the risk when you're playing offline games!

xalfie · Apr 20, 2026

mattyxarope said:
Tbh this advice should be DEFAULT for most users - if you're not using your FTP or updating some homebrew, there is no reason to have the internet connected to the PS5 (unless you're using an at home DNS blocking all PlayStation addresses AND the 127.0.0.1/2 DNS on your device). It's not worth the risk when you're playing offline games!

all that no worth. Blablah DNS, 127.0.0.1 DNS, 127.0.0.2 DNS, etc etc. No worth, any of them !
Just use pc lan ip as dns 1 in the ps5 config, and you will have connectivity with the PC when required, and you won't expose the console to PSN. Anything more is required.
And this extends to everything. Y2jb, Netflix hack, PS4, PS3....

Anything more is required, but if someone want to invent new things to complex this, just invent

ShintaiUS · Apr 20, 2026

xalfie said:
You don't own digital stuff guy. You should begin to understand it, and see if you should continue paying for vaporware.

There is no need of a lecture about software licensing. Again, with a jailbroken console the "licensing" (you don't own) mantra is completely out of the window.

BobaFett_UK · Apr 20, 2026

So over on the discord group, they are now talking about Yarpe and Lua again and getting a factory paired slim if you are past 12.40. So suddenly, owning a Pro with a disc drive for jailbreaking is considered risky until that is the pairing is figured out... But the point i'm curious about is why Yarpe? Thought that route was not available anymore and the same goes for Lua? What am i missing here?

KiiWii · Apr 20, 2026

BobaFett_UK said:
So over on the discord group, they are now talking about Yarpe and Lua again and getting a factory paired slim if you are past 12.40. So suddenly, owning a Pro with a disc drive for jailbreaking is considered risky until that is the pairing is figured out... But the point i'm curious about is why Yarpe? Thought that route was not available anymore and the same goes for Lua? What am i missing here?

I guess because hard copy games still work.

The digital approach is getting locked down, but I would say now is the time for a new webkit, or else digital users will be screwed.

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