New PS5 firmwares proved resistant to kernel exploit — hacker admits no vulnerabilities found yet
Translated with AI from the Russian original.
Some hoped they would soon be able to run GTA VI on PC.
The release of Grand Theft Auto VI is scheduled for November 19, 2026, on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S consoles. The new title from Rockstar Games will not be released on PC yet, so some gamers are hoping that tech enthusiasts will come up with something involving emulators or even enable running the game natively on PC.
In late October, gamers got new hope in the form of a hacker (security researcher) known as notnotzecoxao. At that time, he spoke about working on a PlayStation 5 kernel exploit dubbed “Prolapse”. It was aimed at firmwares 14.00 and 14.10 (which were still relatively new at the time the exploit was announced).
Recently, notnotzecoxao reached out and reported that the exploit will not work with PlayStation 5:
For those out of the loop: the PS4 14.00 vulnerability that was leaked online was supposed to be the new “prolapse”, as it’s also an AIO (asynchronous input-output) bug. The issue is that on PS5 this bug doesn’t corrupt memory, meaning the chances of an exploit based on it for PS5 are close to zero.
notnotzecoxao expressed the opinion that nothing can be done with PlayStation 5 firmwares 14.00 and 14.10 at the moment:
@Sonic_Iso warned both me and @StretchEcho that it’s impossible to corrupt this memory, and I think he’s right. Maybe another AIO bug will show up (collapse maybe?), but for now, it looks like we’re out of luck with PS5 on firmwares 14.00 and 14.10.
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